I was looking to retire and replace my old Acer Laptop and was guided to look and eventually purchase the HP Pavilion DV7-4167CA.
This was a beautiful laptop!
- 1.70GHz AMD Phenom II Quad-Core Mobile Processor P940
- 6GB DDR3 RAM
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 Video Adapter
- 500GB (7200RPM) Hard Drive
- LightScribe Blu-ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer
- 17.3” LED Display
- 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
- 802.11b/g/n WLAN
- 4 USB ports
- HDMI port
- 5-in-1 media card reader
- and more… (DV7-4167CA Specifications)
It was easy to get setup and ran beautifully! Truly a delight to work with.
BUT! I did encounter 1 MAJOR issue. The biometric finger printer reader conflicted with MS Access’ security?! Since, MS Access is a major part of my business, and nor HP, nor Microsoft have yet to come out with a fix for this problem which seems to be well known and I could not perform my work. I ended up having to reluctantly return the laptop.
I would grade this laptop as an 8.5 out of 10 even with this issue, since it will not impact most potential buyer’s. That being said, I am very disappointed by HP to not have a fix for this, considering I can find posts going back quite sometime reporting this problem with their biometric security feature. At the end of the day they lost a customer out of it!
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011, 8:00 am | 
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