HP Pavilion Dv4040

screen, portability, usability, design, reliability

keyboard

44% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

This machine has great guts, but is poorly built. The plastic frame is not rigid enough, and mine does a lot of creaking and groaning when picked up. My DVDROM crapped out within 6 months of owning it, and the power connector has broken twice. Also,...

The dv40404us was my first notebook and I totally love it! I have it since may, 2005 and it never had a problem. I use it for everything, I work with it, I watch movies, play games... Now we bought other notebook because my husband needed one and we...

I have owned an HP Pavilion 4000 series notebook for about two years and have sent in for repair four times already. The issues varied from a defective battery, to a defective power supply, to defective system fans and overheating, to locking up...

I have owned an HP Pavilion 4000 series notebook for about two years and have sent in for repair four times already. The issues varied from a defective battery, to a defective power supply, to defective system fans and overheating, to locking up...

HP has the WORST customer service of any company of any kind that I have ever dealt with. I have never called without having spent at least one hour on the phone with them before the various extensions in India, none of whom are helpful. And once the...

This laptop is very user friendly, and has a lot of unique capabilities. The screen is thin, and wide for a fantastic crisp looking screen display; however, the price is the biggest downfall of this product. (...)

Best in terms of speed, reliability (no freezing) and WiFi access! About the "keys of the keyboard problem"...If you have owned a Toshiba before that, it will feel unusual the first 2-3 times, after that you get used to the feel of the buttons... ...

This computer has a horrible keyboard. The keys are cheap and I feel that my fingers get caught under the thin adjacent keys that I am hitting. Eventually they will break. In addition, the center of the keyboard flexes do to pushing on a center key....

Just got the HP Pavilion dv4040us a few days ago. Notebook looks sleek, had no dead pixels on the screen. Plus, it is fully loaded with all hardware capabilities one might need, including cool remote control that sticks into PCMCIA slot! It is my...