Review HP Pavilion tx2500z 12.1" High, Vista Home Premium 
Buy Cheap HP Pavilion tx2500z 12.1" High, Vista Home Premium From Here Now!Processor: AMD Turion(TM) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-80 (2.0 GHz), MEMORY 2GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB) HARD DRIVE 160 GB SATA 5400RPm, DISPLAY 12.1" WXGA BrightView w/Integrated Touch-screen. MULTIMEDIA DRIVE Super Multi 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer. VIDEO GRAPHICS ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics w/Webcam DIGITAL MEDIA 5-in-1 media card reader COMMUNICATION 802.11b/g WLAN, KEYBOARD Full-Size POINTING DEVICE TouchPad with dedicated vertical & horizontal scroll pad DIMENSIONS 8.82" (L) x 12.05" (W) x 1.23" (min H)/1.52" (max H) WEIGHT 4.59 lbs. PC CARD SLOTS ExpressCard/34 slot, EXTERNAL PORTS: Expansion port 3 connector Integrated Consumer IR (remote control receiver),3 USB 2.0, S-video TV-out Headphones out Microphone in RJ-11 (modem) RJ-45 (LAN) VGA port SOUND Integrated Altec Lansing stereo speakers. POWER: Standard Lithium-Ion battery. OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium. SOFTWARE: HP PhotoSmart Essentials, Muvee AutoProducer Basic Edition 6.x (with 20-day-trial full version), Adobe Reader 8.x, Microsoft Works 9.0, Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, HP Games Powered by Wild Tangent, Cyberlink DVD Suite, Sling Player from Slingbox, the Sims Life Stories laptop edition, Slingbox Flash Tour (Desktop icon only), HP Quickplay, Corel Painter Essentials 3
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- AMD Turion(TM) X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 2.0 GHz, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
- 160 GB SATA,12.1" WXGA BrightView w/Integrated Touch-screen
- Super Multi 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer, 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- ATI Radeon(TM) HD 3200 Graphics, w/ Webcam, Microsoft(R) Works 9.0
- 5-in-1 media card reader, 802.11b/g WLAN, Vista Home Premium
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"HP's qualidty is so bad now" 2010-04-01
By Xian
HP's quality are being probed and many laptops recalled in Asia now.
Quite a few models are being reported with display problems.
The US models are not much better. My own $1000 laptop broke down right
after warranty period and the customer service manager said "we can't do any thing
for you." So, just stay away from HP laptops.
"Great Design; shame about HP's lack of support" 2010-01-13
By R. J. Battersby (E'bourne, SSX, UK)
I think most everything's been said here about this seductively designed tablet PC. Its style, features and pricing lure you into buying it but when you get it home, you find that its beauty is skin deep.
- It runs slowly
- It runs HOT - Ouch!
- The battery (that doesn't suffer memory problems) most certainly does
- The SD card reader latching mechanism has broken - see below
- The Digital Persona fingerprint security software is poor - see below
SD CARD READER - I could be sarcastic here and praise HP for inventing such an innovative device. Wow! An SD card reader? How DID they do that? But I won't because we all know they're incorporated in their squillions on everything from cameras and phones to digital recorders and - er - PCs where they serve reliably - often outdoors in harsh conditions - for years. Pity HP didn't choose a reliable SD Card reader. The latching mechanism on mine (and that of many others according to research) failed on probably the 5th time I'd used it. The card just pops back out. You can hold the card in against a spring strong enough to stop a Shuttle launch but after a few seconds, your finger-end goes dead (apart from having to operate the keyboard with only one hand). And HP just doesn't want to know...
DIGITAL PERSONA - The fingerprint reader is pretty slow and usually takes three or four attempts on cold boot but usually only one attempt thereafter. Strange.
But after about 4 weeks from new, a CRITICAL UPDATE Warning came up saying that I MUST update the Digital Persona software to maintain security. So I followed their hand-led instructions and guess what? The new software was a chargeable upgrade. So much for CRITICAL; it wasn't CRITICAL to me. Maybe it was CRITICAL to Digital Persona's bottom line?
Even then, I was suckered into buying it. And guess what? The installation stopped mid-way with a message that it was incompatible with my version of Windows. Now I haven't changed Windows. My HP TX is strictly OE. Don't Digital Persona know who they're marketing their CRITICAL updates to? Seems not.
But unlike HP, after I had sent them a CRITICAL email, a Digital Persona director not only issued me with compatible software, they refunded the cost of my original upgrade purchase. They come out of this smelling of roses.
OVERALL? I wouldn't buy another HP product. If HP cuts corners on quality, they should be prepared to stand by their product in the afterservice. They don't.
"Worst tablet ever." 2010-01-12
By Andres F. Giraldo Galvis (Colombia)
I thought this was going to be a great computer but:
Cheap materials.
Very slow.
Heat issues, it gets extremely hot it gets you sweating, and if you put it in you lap it will literally burn you.
Short battery life (about 2 hours)
Noisy Fan.
Shuts down by itself at times, when you are in middle of something.
Comes with a lot of junk installed that just makes it way too slow, and paired with Vista it is twice as slow.
Very heavy and thick for a small pc.
I would recommend this pc if you want to get a headache, but surely you won't.
So consider it twice before ordering it.
"Beware!!! Don't even think about it" 2009-11-29
By MVC (Miami, Florida United States)
First, I have to accept this is one of the best looking laptops on the market. That's why I bought one in 2007, series tx 1000. Price tag then: $2000. Exactly one year after the computer died, just like that. Even though HP customer service is awful, they replaced the motherboard, but after 3 months, it went dead again! The reason: Nvidia Geforce Go 6150, along with a hardware faulty design that causes excessive overheating. In some cases, before dying the laptop started to present different problems, wifi/bluetooth/ethernet issues, sometimes it would start, sometimes it just wouldn't. I understand the problem affected so many customers, HP decided to replace Nvidia GPUs with ATI's in newer models, however, after reading some reviews related to this much recent model (tx2500z) I can see not much has changed. For those feeling sceptic, the problem described is well documented in different forums and blogs all over the web. Do your homework, research before buying.
To make things worse HP has done nothing to fix this problem, even though a recall was the proper action to take.
Please beware. DO NOT BUY.
"Great computer for doodling, surfing" 2009-11-16
By Owl Bid 2nite (Norfolk, NE USA)
I wanted a tablet to draw on and this is a good one. Does not support pressure sensitivity (which is fine for my uses) and I could not successfully use a WACOM tablet plugged into it for some reason, probably driver compatibility issues. Is lightweight and sturdy, and has occasional slowdown but it acceptable. The built in wi-fi saved my bacon a couple of times! I wish I could figure out a way to disable some of the buttons on the screen though.. where I normally grab it usually activates the dvd theatre thing. I am too lazy to investigate further.
Battery life is fine.
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