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HP Pavilion HDX18-1020US 18.4-Inch Laptop Review from Anthony J Frabotta. Size does mean everything, After using this laptop for over two months I am very impressed. There are a few drawbacks to be warned about though. Below is a breakdown of the positive/negatives I have found:

POSITIVES:

(1) Beautiful large 18 inch HD screen.

Graphic display is far better than I orginally thought. The display resolution is remarkable. It can be seen best by playing a BluRay movie (Recommend Iron Man and/or Dark Knight).

(2) BluRay player

See above

(3) Remote Control is very savvy.

Included can be used for multiple types of media (playing dvd’s, scrolling through music & photos, etc.)

(4) Media card read that can recognize SD, XD, MMC & MS.

Comes in handy when you want to download pictures from a camera card, etc

(5) Look & feel of the case.

HP has used a great design and color scheme on this laptop

(6) Fingerprint Security reader signon.

Has an integrated fingerprint scan on the keyboard to validate the user before they are able to signon and use the laptop.

NEGATIVES (Have found only a couple so far but….)

(1) Hard to find a bag that it will fit in.

Everyone that sells this laptop, stipulates that it will fit in “any” 17″ inch bag. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Be cautious when buying a bag. The actual length of this laptop is 17.25″ inches. The majority of bags are made to fit no larger than 17.0″ inches in length.

After searching I did find one bag I highly recommend. If looking check out the Case Logic 17″ Classic Laptop Case. It securely fits a 18′ inch laptop safely & securely.

(2)BluRay Player only played pre-2008 BluRay discs when first purchased.

You may need to download the latest HP Mediasmart software, as I did to play all BluRay discs (Read Below for additional info).

In short, this is a very well made laptop, and I highly recommend.

I would like to also point out, my last four laptops have been HP’s. I have found there customer service & support to be above and beyond all others.

A perfect example of this occurred when I purchased this HDX18 laptop. The third night I had the laptop, I attempted to play a BluRay movie (Iron Man). When I inserted the movie into the drive, it attempted to read it for over a minute without success. I tried a few more times, with the same results.

So I went HP’s website to chat with HP tech support (FYI.. very useful feature if you hate phone support as I do). After 15 minutes there support was able to let me know that my laptop had only been on the market for a little over a month, and that since the release BluRay had updated it’s copyright security.

With this said, it took HP about two weeks, but they now have a newer version of software to resolve this problem. Although it was frustrating when I first found this problem, I was very relieved once I told by HP this was a known problem and it would be fixed shortly.

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