Jane Talks Tech!

The pictures speak a 1000 words!! Overall, this computer is a BEAST, in my non-qualified opinion. See the WEI score to back that up. I'm a little late to the unboxing party as I've had this notebook to play with since the 6th of January. :)
This post will give a brief overview of the differences between the newer (2009) HP dv7-3080us notebook which I obtained under extremely fortuitous circumstances against my older (2008) customized HP dv9700t laptop. Price-wise, this dv7-3080us retails from $1,399 and upwards. In August, 2008, I purchased dv9700t custom notebook for just under $1440. ...

In the 4 years (counting from 2006 when I purchased my first desktop computer) that I've been an active PC user, I have encountered the following scenario several times:...

See the latest developments at the bottom. As I write, it's been close to 48 hrs since I got an email from Amazon that alerted me to "suspicious activity" they had detected on my account. Thus, they helpfully suspended my account. According to that same email, the account suspension was reversible following their receipt of a follow-up email from me telling them whether or not their detection was in error. The following account is a recounting of Amazon's epic failure in the basic rules of engagement in customer service....

So, as you might've guessed, I got "lucky" on Swoopo.com and won a kickass HP dv7-3080us laptop (which is being used in the making of this post). Here is the Windows experience index (WEI) score of this bad girl out-of-the-bot (OOB):...