HP Pavilion g7-1255sa 17.3 inch Laptop PC (Intel Core i5-2430M Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium)
- Processor clock speed: 2400 MHz
- Processor family: Intel Core i5
- Processor model: i5-2430M
- Motherboard chipset: Intel HM65 Express
- Total storage capacity: 500 GB
List Price: £499.99
Price:
If you can get your hands on one, this is a must buy.,
I (after much searching) luckily managed to bag one of the last hp g7 laptops in stock in Britain a few weeks ago. It’s slim, lightweight, pretty powerful, and is remarkably efficient at cooling.
What I like:
The processor: There is now an update to take the I5 up to a 2.7Ghz dual core, and it is the best processor I’ve come across in a laptop for this price, I used to have an Acer 7530g, which has a pretty hefty processor, but the g7 is in another class. There will soon be another update to kick it up to 3ghz.
The Design: As I said, it’s slim, it’s light, it’s in a lovely colour, and it’s been engineered to keep cool under every day usage.
The cooling: Well, my G7 1255sa idles at 29 degrees in power saver, and 37 in high performance, runing most tasks (video calling, low end games etc) you will very rarely see the temperature rise to much over 55, it’s only when you give the 4gb of ram a good push does the temperature go up, at 80% load it’ll run mid 70s, seems hot, but it cools in moments after you finish.
The Monitor: 17.3″ widescreen, barely any need to use my TV, it’s nice and bright, very easy to see.
The Graphics: There’s around 1900Mb of graphics capability, but this is tied in with the ram, so you may want to upgrade to 6gb of ram to actually get the most out of it, but it happily runs Sonic Generations on 800×600 resolution at 4gb.
Drawbacks:
Sound quality: After having the brilliantly unreliable surround sound on my old acer, this new one looked like a godsend, but it’s lacking a little prescence, either use headphones, or buy some speakers.
The rarity: At the time of writing, it is out of stock in so many places, finding one is a nightmare.
Overall: The g7 is easily the best laptop I’ve owned, happily running almost anything the average laptop user will need without any trouble at all. If you’re looking for a budget gaming laptop, this is still a good choice, but you might be better off with one with higher ram. There is a quad core available, take a look at that, might be a better call.
10/10
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|Great price for a great laptop.,
superb laptop. only got it on the 20th, but now had 3 days to play with it. Very fast with it’s 4GB ram. was going to upgrade to the max 6GB, but see no need at the moment as it works great as it is. I would recommend this for anyone wanting a new laptop for everyday use. I watch sport online and it has no problem with any streaming. The HDMI port is an added bonus for streaming to your tv.
Basically an all round decent laptop with an excellent price tag..
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|HP Pavilion g7,
Generally very pleased with the laptop. It is lightweight, but not so light that it topples off your lap when opened up. It does not overheat or make much noise, and it is very quick to load and get on the internet.
The only irritation my wife and I find is that it is unresponsive sometimes when you use two fingers to scroll up or down. This can be annoying and we have to put the cursor on the scroll bar and hold down the left key on the pad to drag up and down – grhhh!
We have now bought a wireless mouse to overcome this annoyance, but of course we cant then use the laptop on our lap. It may be we will get more use to it and find it easier, but some guidance would have been useful.
Apart from this I am very happy with the product and would happily recommend to anyone.
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