Processor, Motherboard and Operating System

• The DV7 laptop manufactured by HP is powered by a 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 central processing unit. It possesses a system bus speed of 1066 MHz and has 3 megabytes of L2 cache. It is loaded with the 64 bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium, with SP1 update pack.
  
  

Memory, Storage and Optical Drive

• The HP DV7 laptop specs is equipped with 6 GB of DDR2 SDRAM, which is expandable up to 8 GB. It has a Serial ATA portable hard disk, with a capacity of 500.0 GB of Serial ATA-150 at 5400.0 RPM. In addition, it has a LightScribe dual layer DVD Drive.
  
  

Display, Graphics and Networking

• The HP DV7 comes with a 17-inch Brightview, Widescreen LCD display with a maximum resolution of 1440 by 900 pixels. It is equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics accelerator, which possesses 512 megabytes video memory, making a total graphics memory of 2558.0 MB. It comes with a modem/fax for network connectivity.
  
  

Dimension, Weight and Battery

• The HP DV7 is a standard sized laptop. It has a length of 15.6 inches, a width of 11.2 inches, and a height of 1.7 inches. In addition, it possesses a weight of 7.7 lbs. It is powered by an eight cell Lithium ion battery and comes with power cables and a remote control.