Pavilion dv6-6c35dx Review

I promised an update on my new laptop and here it is. I wanted to get a good week out of it to test its capabilities, and I will be the first to admit, there are *plenty* of better laptops out there, but I needed something that could do a few things, like play some decent games (I’m about 12 hours into Kingdom of Amalur and almost finished Portal 2) and for my wife and I to be able to use Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash unhindered. I am happy to report I got exactly what I wanted. This will not be a traditional review with benchmarks and such, but it will be informative.

The laptop in question is a HP Pavilion dv6-6c35dx. It came standard with 6 GB of ram which is expandable to a whopping 16 GB, which I will be moving to very soon (explanation to follow) and a 640 GB hard drive. It’s sporting an AMD Quad-Core A8-3520M processor with an integrated AMD Radeon HD 6620G GPU (graphics processing unit). It also has Gigabit Ethernet, Beats audio and can decode, with ease, 1080p HD video on its truly gorgeous 15.6 LED True HD screen.

I purchased this specific laptop because of the potential for more than halfway decent graphics and its upgradeability. My line of reasoning is that since the GPU has no dedicated graphics memory but can syphon 3 GB of ram for the graphics, I can get some real gaming and graphics work done. Once I upgrade the ram, it can run the GPU full-bore when I need it and still have access to 13 GBs during gaming and graphic intensive stuff and all 16 GDs for more resource intensive applications (like VMware for my Certified Ethical Hacker certification, coming soon!!!) when I don’t. I also plan to remove the DVD-RW drive and replace it with a SSD (solid state drive) to get better boot times and upgrade my primary storage drive to a 1 or 2 TB hybrid drive.

This is a stepping stone purchase for me though. Sometime in the next 6-9 months I will be upgrading to a much more powerful gaming laptop specifically for the same reasons. I am not sold on who I should go with and price really isn’t an issue. I am kind of stuck between Origin, Doghouse Systems and Main Gear. If you guys have any suggestions please leave them in the comments, because you never know I might give on away. 

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