HP Pavilion G6-2313AX Review with Windows 8

I recently purchased HP Pavilion G6-2313AX Laptop. Its ships with free DOS and its hardware specification are:

Product Name	g6-2313ax
Product Number	D5F90PA
Microprocessor	2.3 GHz AMD Quad-Core A10-4600M
Microprocessor Cache	4 MB L2 cache
Memory	6 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Video Graphics	AMD Radeon HD 7660G/7670M Dual GPU (2 GB DDR3 dedicated)
Display	15.6" diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit (1366 x 768)
Hard Drive	1 TB 5400 rpm SATA
Multimedia Drive	SuperMulti DVD burner
Network Card	Integrated 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Connectivity	Bluetooth 802.11b/g/n
Sound	2 x Altec Lansing Internal speakers; Dolby Advanced Audio v2 Audio playback; Dual speakers
Keyboard	Full-size island-style keyboard
Pointing Device	TouchPad supporting multi-touch gestures and on/off button
PC Card Slots	Multi-format digital media card reader for secure digital cards & multimedia cards
External Ports	2 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 1 HDMI 1 VGA 1 RJ-45 1 Headphone-out (Stereo) 1 Microphone-in
Dimensions	37.6 x 24.4 x 3.63 cm
Weight	Starting at 2.48 kg
Power	90W AC Power Adapter 6-cell Li-Ion
What's In The Box	HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated digital microphone (High Definition low-light)

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I use Windows Operating System rarely. Here is my experience with it while using Windows 8 on HP Pavilion G6-2313AX.

1. As HP Pavilion G6-2313AX comes with free DOS, I installed Windows 8 on it.
2. With default installation only few device driver are installed and after installing Windows update few more device drivers are installed and updated.
3. Many people are complaining for device driver for HP Pavilion G6-2313AX. Easily Downloaded all the Windows 8 64 bit device drivers for HP G6-2313AX from HP web-site with this link.
4. Skip the Qualcomm Atheros drivers as HP G6-2313AX has the Ralink Bluetooth and WiFi adapter.
5. After installing all the device drivers everything is working fine.
6. Now HP Pavilion G6-2313AX is a running smooth. Looks like it does not has any kind of heating problem while using Windows 8 if proper drivers are installed. No need of cooling pad that came with it. I am using its cooling pad to cool down Raspberry Pi board.

Here is the Windows 8 experience index for HP Pavilion G6-2313AX with default windows 8 installation:

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HP G6-2313AX is better supported by Windows 8 if compared to Ubuntu Linux. Performance is good with Windows 8. But even after installing official drivers from HP does not improve this score in each category. After using this laptop for more than a week, the performance is good for normal use but not for heavy application use.

Plus Points:

• It has 1 TB HDD.
• It has 6 GB DDR3 RAM
• It has 2.5 GB (512 MB Integrated+2 GB Dedicated) graphics.
• It has a good keyboard.
• Touch-pad is better than other laptops.
• Web-Cam quality is good.
• Video & audio chat experience is very good while using it with Google Hangout.
• Audio quality is good.
• No heating problems if used with proper driver installation.
• No need to buy separate cooling pad.
• Build quality is very good.

Negative Points:

• Resolution is low (1366 x 768).
• AMD Quad-Core A10-4600M processor do not provide that good performance if compared to similar Intel processors. My other 2 year old dell laptop with i5 processor gives better performance than this.

Overall its not that good buy for approx INR 38000 or USD $710. A major drawback with this laptop is that it has AMD processor. Its the first time I bought AMD laptop and not happy.

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