Live BaitSorry, HP. I’m observing a one-man Blu-Ray boycott until Hollywood wakes up and gives us an HD reissue of the greatest flying-carnivorous-fish movie ever made.I speak, of course, of James Cameron’s finest work: his 1981 magnum opus Piranha II: The Spawning. As far as I’m concerned, you can take Avatar, Titanic, and The Terminator and sink them in an alien steamship from the future. Only Piranha II: The Spawning fully explores Cameron’s gift for sensitive, authentic portrayal of murderous mutant sea life.
Under normal circumstances, I’d be on this HP 17” Notebook like a flying piranha on an expendable African-American character in the first act. Windows 7 pre-loaded! 500GB hard drive! 17” screen (that doesn’t support 1080p for some reason)! HDMI out (so you can hook it up to a 1080p TV)! A free workout lugging this 8-pound beast around! It’s exactly the kind of thing a scuba instructor, her scientist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband might enjoy toting to a fish fry on the beach – at least, until the inevitable gory ending.
But not me. Not until I can use this HP 17” Notebook’s Blu-Ray drive to watch Cameron’s meisterwerk in brine-splattered, fin-flapping high definition. I’ll tell you what: if I was a soulless time-travelling killing machine, my first mission would be to go back to 1981 and have a word with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty
Warranty: 90 Day HP
Features:

• 2.40 GHz AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor M600 with 2 MB L2 Cache
• 17.3” Diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600×900)
• 4096 MB of RAM installed, upgradeable to 8192 MB
• ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics RS780M with up to 1918 MB video memory
• 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive
• Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer with LightScribe
• Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN, 802.11b/g WLAN, and 56k modem
• Altec Lansing with SRS Premium Sound
• 101-key compatible with full size keyboard with integrated numeric keypad
• Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
• 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
• Dimensions: 16.2” (W) x 10.9” (D) x 1.37” (min H)/1.70” (max H)
• Weight: 7.69lbs
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Operating System
• 8-Cell Lithium-Ion battery for up to 5 hours and 15 minutes run time
• HP Webcam with integrated digital microphone

External Ports:

• 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
• 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 4th port shared with eSATA
• 2 Headphone out
• 1 microphone-in
• HDMI
• 1 VGA (15-pin)
• eSATA + USB 2.0
• 1 RJ-11 (modem)
• 1 RJ -45 (LAN)
• 1 notebook expansion port 3
• 1 Consumer IR (Remote Receiver)

Security:

• Kensington MicroSaver lock slot
• Power-on password
• Accepts 3rd party security lock devices

Power:

• 65W AC Adapter
• 8-Cell Lithium-Ion battery

Additional Photos:

• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Lid Design with Lighted HP Logo
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Keyboard
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Front View
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Right View
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Left View
• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook Box

In the box:

• HP DV7-3065DX Notebook
• Battery
• Power Adapter

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