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Woozle's HP dv6t-7000 after a year or two of use
photo montage of working battery from the same unit

About

HP describes the dv6t-7000 CTO as an "Entertainment Notebook PC". It's not clear whether this applies to all of the dv6t-7000 series or just the "CTO" version. It's not clear what "CTO" means, either.

Notes

Woozle

My unit came with both a regular hard drive and an mSSD drive which identifies itself as "LITEONIT LMT-32L3M-HP" and appears to have ~32GB of capacity. I replaced it with a 256 GB unit from NewEgg, with no problems.

Annoying issues:

  • The [ins] (insert) key requires pressing the [fn] (function) key to access it. The [fn] key is on the left, the [ins] key is on the right – so you need both hands to press the [ins] key, unless you turn off [num lock] and use the [ins] key there.
  • The [ins] is right next to the key for turning off the wireless – so I'm always accidentally disconnecting myself from the network when I'm trying to copy or paste.
  • This is presumably a bug which may have been fixed: the wireless hardware does not initialize properly on rebooting. (This problem also applies under Windows 10, so it's not a Linux driver deficiency.) You have to wait until the OS is booted, then suspend (by closing the lid); the wireless will start working a few seconds after un-suspending, if it has been switched on (via the key).
    • When the wireless isn't working, there's no way to tell whether it has been switched on. (Fortunately, it does at least remember its last state when rebooted – so if you can get it working once, you just need to not accidentally turn it off.)
  • The power cord comes out very easily. Several times I've not noticed that it had come partway out just before I got up to do something else, and the machine was running on battery power the whole time I was afk – resulting in the battery draining completely and the machine losing power, even though it appeared to be plugged in. (It's important to check the on-screen power-status indicator, especially if you notice that the screen seems a little dim.)

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