HP Compaq 6515b User reviews

By Darius Chang on 05/04/2007

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With a strong corporate feature set, the HP Compaq 6515b should find favour with corporate customers looking at value-for-money propositions.

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Users' rating:

6.1/10

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6515b | amd | hp | turion | wide screen | strong

Angry Badger
16/11/2008, 11:22 PM

rating
1/10

MY HP Compaq 6715b is without doubt the worst computer I've ever had, coupled with a bloody awful OS in Vista. Ridiculously slow for almost any task compared to the Dell it replaced, unreliable CD and DVD burning make archiving a nightmare, hangs and crashes more often than any other Windows PC I've ever used, poor wireless range compared to the Dell it replaced. Battery life ok when new but after a year it's laughable. I'm sure a lot of it is to do with HP shipping the damn thing with Vista having designed it for XP, but given the poor optical drive and that I sometimes struggle to get as far as BIOS when starting up unless I take the back off and re-seat the RAM I'm not convinced it would be vastly better with another OS. I'm saving up for a Macbook and when I've got it I'll have my revenge on this thing in a very brutal and final way.

Pros: Heavy enough to sink without trace very quickly when I launch the damnable thing off a ferry into the Bass Strait. Large enough to make an easy target if I decide to shoot it instead.

Cons: How long have you got? The longer I've had it the more I've grown to hate it.

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SoulReaver
23/03/2008, 04:30 PM

rating
10/10

Good. Light, small, good batery life. Lots of features.

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Donn
03/03/2008, 03:40 AM

rating
10/10

Using for work, got everithing you need. VERY good cost x benefit. Ram tyoday is very cheap, go for 2GB

Pros: Very portable, good battery lifetime

Cons: none so far

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AC
06/02/2008, 03:44 PM

rating
10/10

Using about 6 months. Always a fan of Toshiba, tried this HP... and no regrets.

Pros: Good battery life time, something near 4 hours. Very good security options, makes me fell more safe about my docs...

Cons: Nothing, so far so good. Those who are ratting low points problaby had a bad fornecedor

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Vinicius
01/02/2008, 12:00 PM

rating
9/10

For business, is enought

Pros: Small, fantastic security options, good battery, fast very fast for office aplications. Go with 2GB Ram and Vista is good to go

Cons: No camera, using an MS USB

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genobz
25/09/2007, 06:26 PM

rating
2/10

RUBBISH!!!
Vista is nt meant 4 this laptop...
ugly configuration!
hangs in middle of work..
i hav gt my laptop replaced 2 times

Pros: connectivity
battery

Cons: everything else!

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dedoy
21/09/2007, 06:59 AM

rating
8/10

Bought 6515b with WinXPpro for business use. Great Machine so far.

Pros: small, rugged, full-featured, with all the nics/ports and security needed for different business environments and travel.

Cons: noisy cd/dvd drive

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hp user
05/06/2007, 02:26 PM

rating
3/10

Light notebook.

Cons: Vista running on standard 512MB RAM very-very-very-SLOWWWWW! Despite set to performance (disable all those fancy features)

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ajfja
17/05/2007, 04:53 PM

rating
2/10

very bad and it restart in middle of work

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