HP Pavillion 7000

I owned a HP Pavillion 7000 for two and a half years.During this time, I traveled with it quite a bit and used it as my primary computer. I wanted a 17" screen and was very happy with the computer at first as I had been working off of a slower 15" laptop for a few years before.However, I have to share that now owning a Toshiba Satellite 17" laptop, I can't recommend that HP anymore.The HP was quite heavy and is about 1.5 lbs more than the Toshiba which I now have and worst of all, the HP ran very, very hot.I was running business applications mostly and found the fan running continuously.The fan is not subtle and by the end of the day, I was quite fed up with it. I also want to share that the HP's battery dies during year two and that eventually the hard drive began to overheat as well.The HP is too noisy/hot, heavy and the keyboard and touchpad weren't as nice as the Toshiba which I am using.I believe that the HP came with a lot of photo and multimedia ports and if you are a hobbyist and were using the HP for two hours a day for photos etc. it would work.For a desktop replacement, I would recommend a Toshiba or of course a Mac etc.