HP HDX18-1005ea 18.4in Notebook Comments

with the hp laptop touchpad drivers, did you find that after re awaking it from sleep mode the touchpad would jump wildly from side to side whenever you try and move it after a few seconds?

Very very tempting for under a grand. Nice huge screen, Blu-ray drive, tons of ports. Plus the advent of Windows 7 means it might be safe to step back into the waters of the PC. Perhaps it just seems like less money because I've been browsing the space-time distorting prices of the Apple Store for the last month.

I only play one online PC game these days (thanks to my Xbox 360) - which is Battlefield 2. Can anyone advise how well this laptop would cope with it?

@ Chris C - I can't say for sure, but my current laptop has an 8600M GT 256MB compared to the slightly faster 9600M GT 512MB in this notebook, although that may depend on whether it uses GDDR2 or GDDR3 memory (on this note I would like to see this spec added to the feature table as many nVidia mobile cards offer both versions and can make quite a bit of difference in the performance stakes - GPU-Z is a useful utility: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/)

Back on topic, BF2 is quite a few years old now, so my laptop was able to cope quite well with it if I remember correctly, even at mostly high settings, but you will likely have to turn the resolution down a couple of notches. The only games my card struggles with is anything made in the last couple of years or so, which I just play on my desktop anyway. HTH ;)

Please refrain from buying any HP Laptop. HP Products are technically flawed and HP never stands behind its products. Service is too poor and one shouldnot expect any replacement of parts..in most cases HP alleges that the laptop has been tampered with, screws missing, water damage or coffee/coke dropped inside Hardware parts(CPU). Tech. Support is run by liars and idiots stationed at Bangalore, INDIA. They are trained to take down wrong complaints. They never call back and never replace a product with manufacturing defects. SO PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM HP!! and warn all friends and family. HP is improving its profits and bottomline by giving poor post sales service and technically flawed products. Even a mail to Mark Hurd falls on deaf ears....Hope HP mends its ways before its too late.

@ Anjana whilst I appreciate that you have obviously suffered frustration with HP's service shouldn't you back up this rant with some form evidence rather than just accusations.

Yes, Anjana is wright because I recently had same experience with hp and support from Bangalore team. so I still don't know if my pavillion dv6500t support 800mhz fsb.