HP G72-260US 17.3-Inch Laptop

Big, beautiful wide-screen. Laptop runs fast, quiet and cool. Windows 7 is a definite upgrade from Vista. I was a little worried about the touch-pad area at first because it has the same texture as the rest of the laptop surface. However, the touch-pad area is fully customizable and adjustable through the menus. The one con I was concerned about before purchasing this laptop was the speakers (Altec Lansing). The speakers are fairly weak, and the sound, like on most mid-level laptops is only adequate. Battery life clocked in at a little over 3 hours. Overall, I'm satisfied with my purchase.

I'm just saying. Be careful. I bought this sleek looking laptop from Office Depot. It had all the bells and whistles and the price was $600, give or take a few lunches: webcam, 17" screen, lightweight, windows 7. At home office, and during my 14 day free trial from Office Depot, I found that HP had not loaded my webcam. Next I couldn't find my "insert" button. HP tech support from India(very nice, very professional, and very patient) corrected the webcam and the "insert" button, which is a bit of a pain as you have to depress the shift button and then the "delete" button, even though there is a button next to the "delete" which unequivocally says "ins" but rest nexts to "prt sc" on same button. So, are you with me? Now, I am getting worried that someone in design forgot the insert software and "jury rigged" the delete button to quickly correct. Then,there's the cursor and touchpad. You seem to constantly have to clean your hands for the cursor to move "at will" when you are trying to merrily go about your computer business. Then,yes there's more, in a lamp lit desk office environment you can't see the letters on the keyboard very clearly...could have made the white on black ink bolder to help out aging eyes. Then, the computer started shutting down without my assistance(Computer number one).so computer number one was returned and I was given a replacement. But, alas,same scenario...without the automatic shutoffs...but with continued webcam and "insert" button issues....so, that is why I am packing it up again....14 days is not long enough to find what other bugs may hide in my brand new computer...I have loved HP for many years, so am sorely disappointed that I have been sold two "lemons" to date. I will be glad to retract all of what I have written if HP will let me know "what gives?".

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Got this two years ago and it has been a good computer. It is time to replace the battery to give me a bit longer when I am unplugged.

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It boots up quickly (not as fast as an apple). The keypad on the side is awesome if you're using it for work. One thing to note however is the speakers broke after about 2 days of use. Everything else works fine though.

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The laptop itself is fine, but the real life battery life is about 2.5 hours, NOT the 4-5 hours that HP claims. It has all the specs to be a good laptop (dual core processor, 4 GB of memory) but the mouse pad/pointing device is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING! It keeps doing all kinds of annoying things like zooming in or out, or paging up or down when all i want it to do is move and point where i want it to. And bringing up the Synaptics Pointing Device program and trying to fix the annoying habits was futile. It seems like HP decided the looks of the pointer/mouse pad were more important than it functioning simply and properly.

I was removing a virus from my sister's 2005 laptop the other day and her pointing device was so simple and just did what it was supposed to do. And of course there's tons of annoying software that I don't want pre-loaded on Windows.