HP G42

Winning design elements. Lightweight. HDMI port.

Poor performance, components for the price.

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Affordable. Includes multi-function printer. Two-year warranty.

Sluggish performance. Reflective screen. Bloatware.

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Non-glossy finish ; Nice design pattern ; Greater RAM, hard drive space ; Performs well ; Crisp, clear onboard audio

Touchpad merges into palmrest ; No Gigabit Ethernet

The HP G42-256TU is a compact, lightweight 14-inch laptop for budget-conscious buyers. It offers more RAM and hard drive space than most of its competitors, for its price.

Looks ; Good sound quality

5400 RPM drive ; Quirky touchpad toggle

Light weight and up to date

Small trackpad in the center w/o marking for scroll bar. Trackpad buttons are very stiff ; Keyboard design makes it a little tricky for me to reach the right shift key ; Speakers sound awful, but atleast they make sound

Not much to add since my last review

a few weeks ago the wireless connection started acting up. It works fine for a few minutes and but slows down to a crawl. The connection to the router constantly keeps fluctuating between 36mbps to 1mbps for no reason (laptop is stationary). Initially...

Lightweight, long batt life, full size keyboard. Its as light as you get with out going to a netbook with smaller keyboard. No cd-rom so less weight when on the move

Could not find a way to disable tap to click. My sister is a writer and does a lot of typing. She would prefer to use the mouse buttons to click instead of accidentally clicking wither her wrist while typing. This is easily ficed by throwing the...

Great laptop. Has all the bells n whistles u need in a great Mid performing and more laptop. i could care les about no bluetooth- which was the only thing missing ; Bought it for my cousing who ws recovering from the netbook trends. We were waiting for...

comes with all 4 drive partitions used up preventing from spitting the drive for a "My Documents" Partition ; Absolutely necessary for a 99% full proof backed up system

I sought out this computer because of the AMD "Champlain" P520 processor, which was just released a few months ago and is a solid, low energy-consuming processor that for 14" and 15" laptops. I have owned many AMD laptops recently and this dual core,...

HP has a grip on this computer from all of the software that is loaded on it. Some of the Windows components are actually changed or integrated into HP programs. This makes uninstalling bloatware a bit of a process. I recommend to leave what isn't...

Cost

I also had a problem where every time I put it to sleep or closed the lid windows would crash. The HP technicians told me it was a known issue and that they had no solution ; Tons of bloatware