HP adds Vista to its Pavilion laptop lineup, intros dv9200 model

If you're into confusingly minor laptop updates with mainly a boosted OS and perhaps some RAM and HDD space thrown in for good measure, January is going to prove a banner month for you. HP just announced the inclusion of Vista on four of its Pavillion laptops, including the sexy tx1000 we've been hearing so much about. The biggest bump looks to belong to the dv9200 17-incher, which keeps that sleek form factor -- for a 17-inch, at least -- of its dv9000 predecessor, but adds in Core 2 Duo options up to 2GHz and a base configuration featuring 1GB of RAM, a 120GB HDD and a super-multi DVD burner for 168,000 yen ($1,394 US, though we're sure Stateside pricing will be a little friendlier). Most notable is the inclusion of an HDMI port, and of course Windows Vista Home Premium. Other laptops getting the bump include the dv6200 and G5000, which are both being handed a fresh copy of Home Basic, while the TX1000 is rocking the Home Premium like it was meant to be done.

[Marcos @ Jan 16th 2007 8:24AM]

I just bought the dv9000t a few weeks ago with Core 2 Duo processor 2 Ghz, 2 gb ram (667 mhz), and they have single hard drives up to 120gb and dual hard drive configurations up to 160gb. Plus with Vista Premium Upgrade being shipped as soon as it comes out, this makes it no different.

[Intrepid @ Jan 16th 2007 8:27AM]

I wouldn't mind a TX1000...

[resource @ Jan 16th 2007 1:14PM]

Any word on the dv2000t?

[Matt @ Jan 16th 2007 1:17PM]

Any ideas when these are coming out in europe?

It seems HP have pulled all the 9000 series from stores, so I assume that the 9200 series should be coming out soon.

[Bryan @ Jan 16th 2007 1:55PM]

Anyone know when HP will announce new DESKTOP computers with Vista preloaded?

[PreGHz @ Jan 16th 2007 4:01PM]

I'll buy it if it can still float out of the box.

[Z @ Jan 16th 2007 11:48PM]

This laptop needs a UXGA screen, a Dual-link DVI port, an Nvidia 7950 GTX 512MB video card, a biometric fingerprint reader, a swiveling/adjustable camera (not just a stationary one), and an HD-DVD-R/RW drive (whenever those are available).

If HP makes those changes, this would be the finest laptop I could imagine owning.

The only other thing I could think of to add the cherry on top would be an Nvidia 7950 GTX SLI option w/1GB of total memory.

Hey, I can dream. Besides, you never know...

[G80 Hopeful @ Jan 17th 2007 2:17AM]

NVIDIA DOES NOT MAKE A DUAL-LINK DVI PORT FOR NOTEBOOKS!!!!!!!!

They only make dual-link graphic cards for desktop. NONE, I repeat none, not even their FX2500 QUADRO mobile card is dual-link.

Hopefully, G80 will fix this stupidity on their part. But it's not much better with ATI...while ATI claims the X1700 and X1800 have dual-link...no notebook that has these cards work with dual-link. Only the X1600 mobility card which only works on the huge 15 to 17" macbook pros. Yawn!

[Z @ Jan 18th 2007 9:23PM]

And that's a real shame. Nvidia and ATI should get with it and offer this connectivity. The fact that the MacBook Pro has it, shows it can be done.

[Chris @ Jan 17th 2007 3:24AM]

Can I get one of those hover laptops!

[s @ Feb 1st 2007 2:03PM]

All the models of 9000 series are design disaster and complete failure in usability. There are few extremely sensitive touch buttons on the top row that are hardwired with the functions like launching DVD player (who will start DVD player hundred times a day to justify this Quick Launch key?). There is no way to reconfigure those buttons and every time you accidentally slightly touch them DVD player will pop up on the top of everything you are doing at the moment. HP Customer Care is helpless with those buttons and suggests only to kill a driver for all of them, which is also not a solution, because ingenious designers put speaker volume control on them also. In addition to this the keyboard was redesigned to have numeric pad (who needs it on the laptop anyway?), but accomodate for it the so hardly used right shift key was reduced in size in half and now instead of shif key you hit an UpArrow key. This keyboard "design" is a joke, avoid this series and a lot of frustration as well.

[Natalie Clevinger @ Aug 21st 2007 8:56PM]

My first HP 9000 series computer had a graphics failure at the ripe old age of two and a half months - apparently all of this model did. I shipped it back to HP and once they had it for two and a half months I finally screamed, yelled, and threatened legal action so they sent me another one. That was in late March. My second one just came back from the factory because it was overheating (this is August). The heat had cracked the hinge on the exterior and damaged other things internally. On the plus side, I sent it back last Thursday and got it back Monday. On the negative again, my battery, which had been functioning just fine before I returned my laptop, now cannot charge past 40%. I have been in an online chat session for the past 90 minutes and the battery check showed my battery not to be functioning and that a replacement is needed. HP wants my credit card number in case I do not pay for the old battery or if it is not in like new condition. For a six month old laptop which is under warranty - a special warranty because of what I went through earlier this year. I refused, they do not need my credit card number. We went back and forth on that and I was very insistent and finally got HP to give that up. My point is, the computers have problems and HP for the most part is only helpful if you get aggressive with them. Stay far, far away from HP laptops.