Quick Specs
- AMD Turion64 X2 Processor TL-56; Dual Core
- 1.8 GHz, 2 x 512 KB L2 Cache, up to 1600 MHz FSB
- 17” Colour TFT ; BrightView™ WideScreen
- 8X SuperMulti Drive LightScribe, Double Layer (8.5 GB)
- Windows Vista Home Premium
[[[ NOTE ]]] – Read my review of this laptop here.
Specifications
Model
- HP Pavilion dv9502AU
- Colour – Silver and Black
- HP Imprint Finish – Radiance Pattern
Microprocessor
- AMD Turion64 X2 Processor TL-56
- Dual-Core Processor
- AMD PowerNow Technology
- HyperTransport Technology
- Up to 1600 MHz FSB Speed
Cache Memory
- 2 x 512 KB Integrated L2 Cache with advanced transfer cache
Chipset
- NVIDIA MCP67M
Memory
- 1 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 (667 MHz)
- 2 SODIMM Slots (Expandable to 4 GB with discard)
Hard Drive
- 160 GB Serial ATA
- 150 MB/sec @ 5400 RPM
SuperMulti Drive with DL
- 8X DVD LightScribe Technology
- DVD+RW/+R Writer/
- DVD : 8X + write; 4X + re-write; 8X DVD read
- DVD+R DL : 4X read; 2.4X write
- CD : 24X write; 16X re-write; 24X read max speed
- DVD-RAM : 5X read and write
Video Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
- Up to 287 MB TAG* memory (as allocated by Vista)
Widescreen Display
- 17” Widescreen Colour TFT
- Diagonal Size – 17” (43.18 cm)
- 16:10 Aspect Ratio
- 1440 x 900 WXGA+
- BrightView™ Screen
Audio / Speakers
- High Definition Audio
- Altec Lansing Stereo Speakers
Communication
- Integrated 10/100 Realtek LAN
- High Speed 56K Modem
Capacitive Buttons – Backlit with Touch Technology
- QuickPlay DVD Launch button
- QuickPlay Media button
- Player controls
- Volume control strip
- Dual-colour Mute button
- 5-In-1 Digital Media Reader
- Secure Digital, SDIO, Multi-media card, Memory stick, Memory stick pro and xD picture card
Wireless LAN
- Integrated 802.11 a/b/g
- Bluetooth Wireless PAN 2.0
- Integrated Bluetooth HP Module
- Next Generation – ExpressCard
- ExpressCard/54 slot
Battery
- 8 Cell Lithium Ion
Interface
- Expansion port for HP xb3000
- Two Stereo Headphone Jacks
- One Microphone In
- Three USB 2.0 Ports
- One IEEE 1394a Port (4 pins)
- One S-Video TV-Out
- One RJ-11 – Modem
- One RJ-45 – NIC
- One DC Power In
- One VGA Out
- Kensington Lock Slot
Pointing Device & Keyboard
- Touchpad with On/Off button
- Right/Left button
- Two way Scroll Zone
- Full size Keyboard
- Separate Numeric Keyboard
- Fingerprint Reader
Software
Operating System
- Windows Vista Home Premium
Additional Software
- Microsoft Works 8.5
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.x
Digital Entertainment / Imaging
- Roxio Creator 9 Basic
- QuickPlay for Windows ver 3.2
- Muvee AutoProducer Basic Edition
- HP Games (Shareware)
- HP PhotoSmart Premier
- Verisoft Access Manager
Security and Maintenance
- Norton Anti-Virus (Includes 60 days of Live updates)
- Norton Internet Security 2007 (Includes 60 days of Live updates)
Recovery Kit
- SoftThinks Recovery Disc Creator
Help and Support Centre
- HP Software Updates
Accessories
- HP Mobile ExpressCard Remote Control
Webcam and Microphones
- VGA Web Camera with Low-light Technology
- Two Omni-directional microphones
Dimensions
- (H x W x D)/1.64 x 15.59 x 11.22 inches (Note: Height varies depending upon where on the notebook the measurement is made)
- Weight – 3.53 Kgs / 7.8 lbs
- Three Spindle
Blogposts
Mention the cost also..
Hey Murthy – The anti-spam filter on this blog marked both your comments as spam! Ha ha! I did not know it was so good.
The cost is Rs. 50,000 (approx 1250 U.S. dollars). Will add it to the main post later.
Hi,
Thanks for your comment on by blog.
Vista Home basic sucks. Not sure how stable premium is.
I found Vista Home Premium to be pretty stable. In my approximately 3 months of usage it has crashed/hanged only 3-4 times and I am pretty happy with that figure.
However it is a resource hog. Even with all the fancy features turned off (Aero UI, sidebar) and unnecessary services shut down it is still only tolerably fast. I mostly use Windows for surfing so that does not bother me but I do plan another GB of RAM as soon as possible. Right now it has 1 GB of RAM.
I used to use Linux almost 100% of the time but I am simple unable to get my wireless card to work with Ubuntu. I tried out all the zillion approaches (ndiswrapper etc.) to this but nothing works for me. Due to this I am forced to use Windows. I plan to buy a Linux-friendly USB WiFi dongle, am tired with messing around with all this.
I’ve used Vista for exactly 10 days, I pretty much hated it as I tend to copy/move a lot of data in my home-network and Vista came out to be very very very slow in doing those.
Btw, Nice lappy Varun. Don’t you think 17″ is kinda big for a lappy ??
@K – You are right. Copying data is a major pain in the ass in Vista. I mostly use Vista for surfing, iTunes, GTalk/Yahoo calling. For my experiments and reading it is mostly Linux. Once I get my wireless card working with Linux (or buy a Linux-friendly USB WiFi dongle) I intend to go off Vista. I do not particularly like Vista but I do not hate it either. In fact I was fully expecting to hate it when I bought the laptop but surprisingly I did not.
Ha ha. 17 inches is indeed big for a laptop. But I wanted a “portable desktop” rather than a laptop. I saw this model in a Croma showroom and 50K is a bargain for a 17″ laptop with this configuration. I also fell in love with the large screen and the almost full keyboard (separate numeric keypad!). It really is a cool laptop if I say so myself, nice Altec Lansing speakers, all the normal laptop thingies etc. I am happy!
Hey Varun…am contemplating on buying this one…whts the battery back up …is the display High Def ?
Thanks..if feasible mail me at g.sivashankar@gmail.com
Siva
The battery easily lasts for 3 hours, usually lasts for 3.5 hours and has been known to last for 4 hours. It is not great but it is pretty decent.
I am positive but not 100% sure that the display is not high definition. If it was I am sure they must have mentioned it somewhere in the specs. The specs do say that the audio is high def (is it the same as HiFi? hmmm…) but do not say so for the display.
The following are the only significant drawbacks of this machine:
1. Quite heavy – But I was ready for this since I wanted a 17 incher.
2. Screen is BrightView – BrightView is what HP calls screens that are high-gloss. These high-gloss screens are very good for watching movies and when the surroundings are not brightly lit. However I use this laptop mostly for reading and work and that too in well-lit places so the reflective quality of the screen is a pain in the ass. Check out these links http://www.screentekinc.com/hp-compaq-brightview-lcd-screens.shtml http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118951-page,1-c,notebooks/article.html http://www.matbennett.com/tech/dell-truelife-screen.php
3. 1 GB of RAM is decent but 2 GB would be great for Windows Vista Premium. However I mostly use Linux so this is not that much of an issue with me.
I finally got my Broadcom WiFi card working with Ubuntu! Yay! No more Vista (well… very little anyways).
2 resources that helped me immensely:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff
http://files.filefront.com/sp34152exe/;7577917;/fileinfo.html
Enjoy!
I am also using DV9502 Model and satisfied with this. it gives me 3.5 Hrs Battery life. The only drawback from HP is HP doesnt provide any Recovery DVD for re-installing OS but they dumped the OS in D drive and you cant modified partition else you will loss OS and will have to load only from Recovery DVD. I have created but when boot from it it booted but finally it said “This DVD can be use only with HP laptop”. I am using in same Laptop from where I have made. What a strange situation…. I cant modify partition without recovery DVD works.
You can modify partitions and install other OSes. What I did was let the HP_RECOVERY partition (drive D) remain as it is and use the installer of Ubuntu to resize partition C. I did a defrag of C before to make things safer and faster.
So my D drive remains as it is and I get lots of unpartitioned GBs that I then partitioned to my heart’s content. Let me know if you need more detailed help and I will definitely help you out.
Wel…i must say a BEAUTIFUL WAY U VE PUT AL THIS..i also ve this sys & it is really good.. that too at this cost…
now comin to my issue…
i had a lot of issues regardin the net speed with vista Premium.. So installed XP.. & by now u must b knowin what i wanna ask,,ha ha ha…
Wel..
to know from wher i can download he drivers for XP…
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I do have the same lappy but am seriously disappointed with the vista’s performance hog.
@varun – thanks for the blog, now I will setup ubuntu as the native
@vedant – I had given Xp a shot, but was not able to get the network running in XP. Will appreciate a little help here for the xp drivers. Thanks
@Nitin – Check out my review of this machine at http://www.paheli.net/blog/2007/11/26/review-hp-pavilion-dv9502au-portable/
Hi Varun actually I lost the link of this site. Anyway I havent partitioned yet. I want to do partition using Windows Vista. I have installed Windows Vista Premium Retail version (Called to MS and they activate it without any problem as I used my Lappy Windows SN) not HP OEM which comes load with other softwares. It is pretty faster than before. I saw partition option but didnt make as I afraid if it will effect my recovery in future. I want to make partition but want to retained my recovery partition work too.
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This Hp Pavilion dv9502au is simply an amazing device. I have worked on lots of laptops including ones from Dell, Compaq, Vaio and Acer, but this Laptop is just far on. It has few drawbacks as well, but it is well said that everything in this world has pros and cons and we have to select those things which have lesser demerits and lots of merits.
I really enjoyed working on this widescreen Laptop, however I felt that 1 GB of RAM is not sufficient and am going to upgrade it to 2 GB. Vista really sucks but HP has not left ony other alternative.
The Hardware Quality is good, especially the keyboard is very user friendly. Unavailability of a Floppy drive sucks but who cares for it when you have a latest DVD burner in your console.
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sir, please give me link of drivers for my lappy pavilion dv9502au for xp2
I’ve the same laptop and I bought the dock too, yes.. it’s a portable desktop just like yours :p
and yeh.. Vista.. sucks, so within 3 weeks I kissed (kicked?) it goodbye, and made way for XP, yes I won’t recommend it to anyone, coz finding drivers was a pain in the a**.
Hi all. I have the same lappy too. Finding drivers for this one for xp is really difficult but not impossible. Now I am running xp 32 bit(1st Harddisk) and xp 64 bit(2nd harddisk) with all the drivers 100% working
Hi guys
I also using the same device its really cool
but i am not able to use webcam and finger print scanner on suse 10.(linux). Any one here know where to get drivers for this
I too had brought this notebook 8 months ago for precisely the considerations u mentioned (17″). But now I find myself stuch with its GeForce 7150M Graphics and cannot play some 3D games. Can’t even upgrade/change the graphics card!!! Any suggestions for better gaming on this notebook?
I too had brought this notebook 8 months ago for precisely the considerations u mentioned (17″). But now I find myself stuck with its GeForce 7150M Graphics (64 MB dedicated memory)and cannot play some 3D games like ‘Call of Duty 4′. Can’t even upgrade/change the graphics card!!! Any suggestions for better gaming on this notebook?
hae varun i got my lap a week ago. the lap is asowme but i’m irritated with vista. it’s damn slow n booting takes abt a min! that too with a 4g ram!! i’m an engineering student and need high end softwares like CATIA PROE ANSYS NASTRAN etc. and with this speed i think it will take more than 20 min to open the application. i wanna jump to XP. but i came to know the lap dv9502au dont work pritty good with XP and that not all the hardwares are supported with XP. like the XP dont support the wifi system. is there a way out to my problem? can i use XP without any changes and problems to my lap? please suggest soon..
Hey Varun,
Just had a few quick questions about the laptop, I surf and download stuff a lot and quite a lot, so how exactly is the Laptop at opening applications and downloading? And does Microsoft and all work well with that?
@Jake – Read my review here
http://www.paheli.net/blog/2007/11/26/review-hp-pavilion-dv9502au-portable/
Hey Varun….i am impressed with dv9502AU Portable want to know the distributor in Srinagar Kashmir, and if i want to buy it online what will be the cost and what is the current cost price of the same. plz reply
Hey Varun….i am very much impressed with dv9502AU Portable with 17 inch secreen want to know the showroom / distributor in Srinagar Kashmir, India
and if i want to buy it online what is the procedure.
want to know the current cost price of the same. plz reply…………..
thanks.
Jawid Sopori
email: djsopori@gmail.com
hey buddy….nice to see ur Blog..i m using dv9502au notebook since last 10 months and i think Vista makes my job hell of a difficult..I think i will have to upgrade my RAM to 4gb..i have the same C drive and D drive recovery partition..what do u think should i partition the drive more and make four drives. the Boot time of my laptop is almost 2 mins..i download loads of movies on the net..tell me how should i get a better speed…Vista or Xp? also suggest about partition..
Hi Dr. Ashwin,
Vista is slow on this laptop, I am sure an extra gig of RAM would do it good. But remember that the 1GB you have right now is 2x512MB and not a single chip of 1GB. So you will essentially have to remove these and put 2x1024MB or 1x2048MB (strongly recommended, in case you want to upgrade even further).
4GB is good if you can afford it but I do not think it will make much of a difference from 2GB, since there is only so much you can do by adding more and more RAM. There are other parts of your system that are probably the bottleneck and not the RAM.
Partitioning the system will also not make much of a difference, even though it seems that smaller partitions might make for faster access they are eventually based off the same physical hard disk.
Have you installed a lot of software apart from the usual standard ones (MS Office, Firefox etc.)? Do you have an anti-virus program running all the time and are the signatures up-to-date. A boot time of 2 mins makes me think that either your installation is bloated with lots of software or that it has been infected with a virus.
I would recommend that you do the following things:
1. Get the latest signatures for your AV program and do a full system scan.
2. Uninstall all unnecessary software.
3. Remove all unnecessary files from your system. If you download lots of movies then you might be running out of disk space. Might make sense to burn these to DVDs or copy them to an external hard disk.
4. Reboot your system… was there a noticeable improvement in boot up time?
5. Defrag your C:\ partition (My Computer >> Right click on C:\ >> Tools >> Defragment). You will be asked to reboot to defrag the drive. Defragging will take a 2-6 hours depending on how much data you have and the degree of defragmentation.
If your system is heavily virus infected or the above steps do not improve the experience much you might want to try and reinstalling from the recovery partition (or recovery DVDs if you made them initially). This will bring your system to the state it was in when you bought it.
If you can get a licensed copy of Windows XP to install on this laptop with all the necessary drivers then I say go for XP.
Let us know how this turns out…
thanx mate, I will late you know soon……
How much is it?
@Kathy – Approx Rs. 50K when I bought it about an year ago.
i bought dv9502 on 22 aug 2007. finger print sensor not working for last 7-8 days . i tried to recover using recovery manager and also installing driver again from hp.com.still the problem continues . please guide
Hi Dhananjay,
The information which you have provided indicates faillure of the fingerprint reader sensor. Moreover, as you have perform full recovery and installed drivers from HP website and the issue is not resolved. At this moment to confirm the exact cause of the issue I request you to follow below instructions and check for the issue. If the is not resolved then it requires onsite diagosis:
Step # 1:
Firstly, I recommend you to install AuthenTec Inc. AES2501 Fingerprint Driver from the below URL:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp37501-38000/sp37812.exe
Installation Instructions
1. Download the SoftPaq .EXE file to a directory on your hard drive.
2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions.
Step # 2:
Next, install Bioscrypt VeriSoft Access Manager from the below FTP link:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35501-36000/sp35640.exe
Installation Instructions:
1. Download the SoftPaq .EXE file to a directory on your hard drive.
2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions.
Additionally, I am provding the below URLs it will help you to configure the fingerprinter reader in your notebook:
* Setting Up a Fingerprint Reader
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&docname=c00678197&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
* Using Fingerprint Reader to Login to Applications and Web Sites
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00958213&dlc=en
Guys, I’ve had this laptop for about 10 months now and had 4 GB of RAM installed. I was using Vista until now. It was dead slow for my liking. When I click on Word to open it, it takes 55 seconds. When I click on IE, it takes about 30 sec to launch the blank page. This is only the beginning. I got headaches (seriously) just waiting for stuff to happen. And remember I am not a power user. I use it only for mails, word, excel and media player. The built in quick play takes a full 2 min to launch.
I got sick of it, finally changed over to XP just 2 days ago. The laptop is simply flying now. All of you out there, ditch the Vista bitch. go for XP. you get all drivers needed. no issues. everything works. Just go for it – and you will love this laptop even more.
Is there any possibilities of enabling finger print scanner and soft touch keys in suse 11 anyone had did it before
my hp dv9502au recovery manager kit will be uninstall and i can not recovry and restore and my recovery partition will be automatically deleted
please tell me my softpaq no. immdiatly
Seems this topic is from the 2007 and has managed to continue up till Jan 09. Great, let me take it further as I own a DV9502au. Have it since Oct 2007 but never decided to write about it on any blogs as such.
Anyone who is planning on buying this (DV9000 or 9502 series)from HP I would strongly recommend not to buy it. Reason is firstly, there is an inherent design flaw with the hinge of these dv9000 series (I guess even though mine is a dv9502 it comes under the 9000 series) HP had recalled these laptops in the US and Canada but (since we guys are 2nd class)they left us out.
Just weeks before my 1 year warranty was to end my hinge cracked and the lid would not shut. HP did not repair it and instead put the blame on me. 2 weeks after the warranty expired my battery went down they refused to entertain me, now I realize that the DV9500 series battery have a flaw and were being recalled. However they say that I do not qualify for that recall as only a “select” number of batteries were faulty and I do not feature in it (even though my battery series matches the faulty battery series as depicted on HP’s website).
Even though I have a problem with my Hinge and battery HP refuses to have a look at it. So I suggest you stay away from it
Just Google for DV9000 hinge problem and you will know what i am talking about. You should count yourself lucky to have found this post.
Thanks for reading.
hi all the guys/gals out there my name is Ritesh.
everyone i have the same laptop n its good i have !GB of RAM if anyone need this laptop can contact me it is in good condition i want to sell it reason is not that its not good but my brother didnot study at all he used to play games on it all the time he is not getting good marks i can sell it at a price of around 35000
anyone intrested can contact me Ritesh_7732@yahoo.co.in or call me 09829252191 reply guys bcoz my brothers XII std has started n he has boards
i can slash the price further to 30000 n more depending on our mutual understanding but pls reply to my post as soon as possible
if u have problems with vista i can provide it with XP service pack 2 n windows 7 RC1 for trail i use windows 7 on m machine n beleive me guys that was fast n i play games with more ease than on windows vista
Opensuse 11.1 and ubuntu 8.04 works for webcam and finger print and its really good
Boy oh Boy oh Boy, GIMME THA DOLLAR – MY PRECIOUS, HA!
I want to use 4GB ram (2GB x 2) on DV9502 but Vista32 shipped with
the lap becomes sloooow with 4GB. Will XP64 help (see all the
memory and also be responsive enough)? Can anyone (Rachit?) please
help by providing a list of links exclusively for dnloading 64bit
drivers. Thx a ton.