HP G60-530US 15.6-Inch Black/Silver Laptop – Up to 3.75 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium)
- 2.1GHz Intel Pentium T4300 Processor (1 MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB)
- 3 GB DDR2 RAM (2 Dimm), Max supported 4 GB
- 320GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive, LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
- 15.6″ Diagonal High Classification HP BrightView Show (1366×768)
- Real Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, *Up to 3.75 Hours of Battery Life
For those who want to connect and manage everyday computing tasks with an pleasingly minimalist notebook, the HP G60 series Notebook PC delivers balanced mainstream performance at a fantastic value. Powered by Intel processor and graphics technologies, the G60 includes elemental features to enhance your PC experience and life. Watch full-screen HD TV and movies with the 15.6-Inch diagonal show’s 16:9 aspect ratio. Delight in your photos and videos on HD TVs with the HDMI port (cable sold separately). Enter data quickly with the numeric keypad. Look excellent on the go with award-winning, high-gloss HP Imprint end. Get online more quickly with Windows 7 and high-speed wireless LAN. Make personalized, silkscreen-quality DVD and CD marks with LightScribe. Chat face to face with the HP Webcam and mix it up with YouCam’s fun special effects.
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I bought the HP G60-237NR notebook PC in February for less than 550.00. This laptop has all the features and ports I needed. I have had excellent consumer service from HP when I had questions. I have Outlook and we bought this same laptop for my Mom last month at Amazon with the new Windows7. I would recommend this laptop for the average user. I use it for email, shopping the web, MS attention software, Skype, LinkedIn, DVD play, and surveillance Hulu tv over the web. The volume was not loud enough to watch a DVD movie while on vacation in our RV so I bought small external speakers to plug in at a cost of less than $30.00.
I’m reasonably pleased with the laptop as-shipped. The packing was excellent, and the laptop arrived in excellent condition. It comes with a small pad of paper, some other misc junk, and a cloth for polishing the case. The shiny case, by the way, is one of two drawbacks. It looks pretty with most surfaces being shiny, but the glossy black take in constantly has fingerprints (and palm prints) on it. A clear to the shiny surface is that it’s relatively simple to peel off all of the NASCAR-level of sponsor marks. The other drawback to this laptop is that it doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth. Seriously. It has a Wireless N interface – which I’m pretty sure wasn’t even an approved standard when this was made – but no Bluetooth? Oh well. I had a Kensington Bluetooth adapter which is one of those small ones that you leave in a USB port, and it works well (under both Linux and Windows 7).
That leads me to the excellent things. Ubuntu 9.10 installed on this machine with no problems. The volume keys and hardware graphics stepping up work fine, and multiple monitors (by the internal LCD and an external show) work out of the box. The button to disable the trackpad and the wireless disable button both work under Ubuntu (as do the corresponding LEDs). The indicator LEDs for things like caps lock, num lock, the trackpad, and the wireless all blend into the laptop nicely. Wired and wireless (B and G, at least) both work by the book. NTFS resizing also worked fine. The machine is honestly quick with both operating systems, even if the 5400 RPM drive does hamper attention start-up time. Graphics performance is very excellent for business applications; I don’t play games on a general purpose computer, even if, so my standards may be lower than people who would spend more on a video card than I did on this whole laptop. I like the track pad pretty well, and the laptop feels reasonably sturdy. I haven’t tried the built-in HDMI productivity or media card readers under any OS yet. I’m high and mighty they’ll both work; I’ll post a follow-up if one fails. For the record, I would be willing to trade HDMI for Bluetooth as well.
The only other thing of note is the keyboard layout. There is an “end” key shared with the number 1 on the number pad, and another end above the number pad (sharing the scroll lock / sys req button). I’m fond of the “shift+end” (and shift+home) keyboard shortcuts to select everything from the cursor to the end (or commencement) of the line. But, pressing “shift” and the closer “end” key really makes the keyboard type a 1. That’s insignificant, but it does incense me.
Speaking of insignificant annoyances – no Windows install media is shipped (I’ll bet a CD costs less than the paper notepad and microfiber cloth HP chose to bundle). You can make a set of install disks if you want by an built-in tool, even if (only single-sided supported by the tool, even even if there’s a dual-layer burner here); make sure you do that before you wipe Windows off of the machine to install Linux.
If nothing else, it’s simpler to sell your license if you have media to go with it. 
Overall, if I may possibly get another one of these at the same price I bought this one for (a Black Friday deal, with a couple of other discounts including the current rebate deal) I would not hesitate to do so. Yeah, I spent most of this review griping about small things, but the main excellent things are already patently obvious. The CPU and reminiscence built-in are very excellent, the drive capacity is excellent (despite being slower than a 7200 RPM drive), the screen quality is brilliant, and the sound is excellent for a laptop. Windows 7 doesn’t suck as much as Windows has in the past, and the Linux support on this device is very excellent.
Update: I finally got around to hard the HDMI (translation: I finally got a TV with HDMI support), and both video and audio work fine out of the box under Ubuntu 9.10; plug the cable in, start up the show preferences, and you have another monitor you can any extend or clone your desktop over to – then go to the sound preferences and exchange the defaulting productivity device from the on-board sound to the hdmi productivity if you want sound over HDMI. Multiple monitors work fine with the RGB cable on the back as well. But, I haven’t attempted HDMI and RGB external relations simultaneously; I suspect that such an agreement won’t work as probable.
Not sure if its a fantastic product. I got it for my wife, she is fine with it. I feel its a bit heavy.
Twice we faced a weird problem, the computer will just not turn on. I removed the battery and then reinserted it. It started working. Not sure if its a manufacturing defect or some user fault.
I bought this Windows 7-64 bit notebook to replace a crashed desktop. It’s nice enough that there’s a sleek design with its black case and aluminum touchpad and trim, but there’s a lot more “under the hood” of this budget-priced model. 4GB of installed DDR2 @SDRAM with 1MB of installed reminiscence cache, a 320 GB hard drive and a 2.1 Ghz speed on its T4300 processor. The 1366 x 768 BrightView is crisp and clear with a 15.6 show size. The G60 weighs less than seven pounds yet has enough bells and whistles to perform like a desktop. In fact, I am by it as one with a bought flat screen monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse.
Ports/Connectors:
3 USB 2.0
RJ-11 modem
RJ-45 LAN
HDMI
HDDB15 VGA
headphone
microphone
Additionally, there’s a webcam and a 5-in-one media reader (alas, not large enough for a compact flash card, but an external card reader solved the problem).
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit journal is pre-installed and took a small getting used to after my XP machines, but I reflect it ultimately will make home networking a much simpler install as the system is reasonably intuitive.
This is my second HP computer and I am impressed with its performance. I especially like the software compatibility feature that allows me to run older programs in XP mode.
Gripes? Very few. The 5400 rpm drive speed seems a small slow after a 7200 desktop speed and I would not recommend it for serious games, but, for the beginner to average user, it’s a excellent solid machine.
Recommended.
bought as a gift for my son.
Perfectly works for him.
He likes the performance and speed.