After a month of researching different laptops, the dv6-6190us laptop is the best laptop for the price out of any I could find for it's size, weight, and performance. I wanted a compact and portable powerhouse for college so I could both play games and work with ease. I will be a computer engineering major so having a reliable PC is extremely important to me. Although Amazon said it may take 4 weeks, it took only 1 week before the laptop was at my front door.
At first I was a little skeptical because I heard many reviews saying that AMD's new automatic switchable graphics feature doesn't turn on for OpenGL applications. As a result, software created by Adobe like Photoshop or older games like Minecraft will run slower than usual or not at all because the laptop will only use the intel graphics. However, since I do not use those type of programs I decided to take the risk because the features and performance were too great to pass. IF YOU ARE A HEAVY USER OF ADOBE OR OPENGL PRODUCTS, THIS PC IS NOT FOR YOU!!! I do expect AMD or HP to come out with a software fix eventually since this issue is present in pretty much all recent AMD switchable graphics.
Once I bought it, HP preloaded it with so much bloatware it slowed the computer down severely when I first started it. However, as an experienced computer user, I was able to disable many of the unnecessary add-ons and prevent useless startup programs from running and also uninstalled programs I knew I would never use. Some HP programs seemed like a complete waste of space and computer power such as the HP connection manager, especially since Windows 7 can help you connect perfectly fine. After all that, it runs incredibly well and boots up really fast.
