Spice probably isnt wrong on that one. I'm on a dv6000 right now and we managed to get a service under warranty the first time it died was due to overheating and wireless failure (just disappeared from device manager), which also extended the warranty 90 days. the second service was within the 90, this time for overheating and keyboard failure. and the wife threw a fit and got a 2 year, no hassle warranty. the 3rd service came in at about a year later, the wireless died again. The 2 years ran out, and the wireless is funky again.
Right now I'm typing on it with a cheap Rosewill wireless G USB Adapter. The built in works, to a point, but states my wireless router (around 20ft away and through one wall of drywall and wood studs) is around 10% signal strength. The Rosewill shows between 92 and 98% signal strength. I've already come to the conclusion to avoid the hp laptops after this one. Just too much hassle to have it serviced 3 times within over 3 years of warranty and have it fail immediately after the second warranty extension was up (about 20 days after it showed to be over) is just absurd.
As a side note, I have an old Celeron laptop (toshiba or fujitsu i believe) that is twice the weight of this with half the screen size, a fried battery, but still works perfect beyond that. My ex's 5 year old dell is still kicking, though the battery had to be replaced once. My mother in laws old toshiba is still going 7 years in with one battery replaced. None of the 3 had warranty services done at all, and this one had 2 within a year and 3 months and 3 in just over 3 years.
Oh, and the new laptop my mother in law bought was an hp 9000 i believe. If she moved the screen at all the video goes all screwy and artifacts appear on the screen. Once she has it in the position where there is no artifacts, it's fine, until the screen is moved again. Sounds like a loose wire. hp refused to service hers when it started, about 2 weeks out of warranty. She still wont let me fix it, thinking hp will cave if she calls enough...
