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(More customer reviews)I bought my G71 refurb through another vendor, I've only had it a week, but it works! Set my daughter up with her own user account. She's seven, comes home from school and has no problems with the G71. Syncing it with my wi-fi was simple. I bought a new desktop last year, and I was able to use it's Office '07 license to activate the Office '07 version on the G71. (I think a Microsoft license can be activated on three personal use pc's)
The screen is big & bright. The keypad has a friendly solid feel to it. I've seen other owners of new G71's talk about how quiet and unremarkable the speakers are, I don't have that issue with this refurb. It's not a boombox AND laptop, it's a laptop with built-in speakers, and that's what it sounds like. In fact, my daughter was playing an online game, and I had to turn the volume down, because I was trying to watch tv, and the redundant game music was driving me nuts.
I've put almost 2,000 music files on it, my photo-editing software, ftp, html, swish programs, and I'm not having any problems with them.
The only problem I am having is getting Win7 to fit my own photo as wallpaper, and not stretch it to fit the layout of the 17.3 screen. (but I feel confident that if I google the question, I can find an online resolution - for now I just crop my pic in my photo editor, and post it - easy peasy)
If the unit goes bad, I can adjust this review, but so far I'm happy having bought the refurb, and not the new one. (who knows, maybe the refurb version has better audio than the new version - or maybe not)
**Nine months later, still satisfied. The current price calculation on amazon is way too much for a refurb, so shop around. The speaker situation is still kind of quiet, but I do own headphones, and the volume through the headphones is loud. It's just the onboard speaker system that is quiet. I would buy this laptop again, if I had to do it all over.
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