I have been using this printer for 6 months now, starting on the day we bought "Helen", my HP Pavilion PC that has been perfectly running and working with me all the way through ;).
I named the printer "Helena" because they perfectly go hand in hand with "Helen" when it comes to printing jobs and photo workshops. And I can say "Helena" is the best printer so far!
"Helena" is an ePrint wireless which supports Wifi Protected Set up, which means no cables and USBs to use when you need to print something. As long as a wireless internet is present, she can work well with your PC or tablets such as iPad or your iphone. So, she can print, scan, copy and you can surf the internet through the color touch screen display as well.
She comes with 5 printer inks, and it actually came with a free black bag as well. The only thing you have to be aware of is to avoid printing too much photos because the inks run out so fast! But the good point in that? It prints out an excellent quality of your photo too!
"Helena" is a hassle-free companion. You don't actually need to go to your PC desktop or laptop to print, so long as you have your phone, iPad or any tablets that supports air printing.
It always works best with my iPad whenever I am downstairs ("Helena" is upstairs at the office room) and I want to print something, all I need to do is to press the word print and I'm done! ;)
My PC ("Helen") has its own back up file storage called "My Book Essential" and is an external hard drive, shaped like a cable router (black color). It is also called WD Smartware with a USB 3.0 superspeed, although it is also 100% compatible with USB 2.0. It comes with a WD Smartware software, a USB cable, an AC adapter and a quick install guide.
It is also compatible with Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. I love its features, which has a storage capacity of 2 terabytes. That's huge! It's equivalent to 2,000 gigabytes...ideal for storing all my photos, videos and music collections.
This hard drive can automatically back up your PC's files if you choose to. But I opted to back my files manually, since I don't want any other documents to automatically be stored except for all my multimedia. (photos, videos & music). It might be a little hassle if you want to bring it with you on your travels because it is a bit heavy and bulky. It will just be ideal for PC at home. Not unless you really have to bring it with you due to urgency or so ;).
So far, I am loving it. I already moved all the files from my thumb drives to here. Then, my USB plug 'n' play can do all the copying if I would want a copy and bring it with me during long trips. I wonder what will I do with all these tons of thumb drives in my drawer...lol! It might be a good idea to give it to my nephews and nieces in the Philippines. They usually need them in school.
When "Paul Charles" came back home after he was revived, the Geek guys were able to save the data and backed them up with this hard drive. It is called Free Agent GoFlex, an ultra-portable drive and has 500 gigabytes...that's huge! It connects to any USB port and is upgradeable.
I was actually looking for smaller ones (thumb drives) as high as 32 GIGS for my videos, but I guess this will be perfect for all...like photos, videos, music and other stuff. It is much bigger but it's not bulky. I am thinking of carrying it with me for every trip. Although thumb drives are much smaller and much easier and more convenient to carry, I can still rely with GoFlex because I take a lot of photos and videos particularly for big trips, but I won't be discarding these little drives I got. I might give some to my nephews and nieces as well ;).
Finally, my new PC is here! HP Pavilion dv7-6135dx Entertainment PC, one of the most recent products released by HP. It was recommended by "Jordan" our sales rep. from Best Buy. I gave her the name "Helen Precious"...in short, HP hahahaha!! Craig calls her by her full name...Helen Precious Rogers when he gets jealous, LOLZ! I just thought to name my laptops and PCs at home for easy management, lol! Helen's birthday is August 6, 2011, the day we bought her and the day "Paul Charles" went into coma!
"Helen" has Windows 7 and core 15 with Radeon Graphics, bigger memory, highly noted to have a high speed and has "beatsaudio" as well. I am not good into the well detailed tech specs, but those are the current outstanding features that she has.
It has a wider touchpad for touch gestures where you can scroll your fingers in any directions as well as you can zoom the screen by a pinching motion, just like how you do it on Iphone ;). If you are interested with the features, just Google it and you will find reviews about it. From there, you decide ;).
She has 4 USB ports, with one digital media slot for SD camera photos, 2 built in speakers (great, crisp and clear sound, by the way!), HDMI port, built in webcam and 2 internal microphones, an optical drive and other ports at the back for other media connections like connecting it to a TV or big screens.
Aaaahhhhh! Quite an awesome features! I also tried watching movies in it, and it was like a mini movie theater! In my next future posts, I will be posting the accessories that "Helen" is using. They come with great features as well. The prices for all of these???...."priceless"!!! ;)
Last Friday evening, August 5, one of my laptops crashed and I could no longer open the Windows. I have been using this laptop for 8 years, and it still can work good, but my main suspect is that it caught a bad spyware or a worm of some sort. Kaspersky, my anti virus seem to caught the virus which I've noticed while I was surfing and I think I got it when I happened to click a link while googling something. But this time, the worm was attached in a link and I think that was the start of it. There were Window Explorer errors popping up whenever I start Windows. It didn't seem to be a big concern for me because I can still normally surf online by rebooting it! This is a big lesson learned the hard way...{sigh!}. Then the worst happened!
We then bought it to the Geek Squad in Best Buy store at Owings Mills. I guess the technician noticed it was already old when we told him it is already more than 5 years old, lol! Besides, this was the second time it was bought there for repair and so he suggested us to get a new one. We agreed because the repair costs can already be as good as a price of a brand new laptop! Anyway, we still opted to continue with the repair and decided to only use it for Craig's powerpoint files whenever he needs to make some for his class presentations.
We call this laptop "Paul Charles", you know, all of our computers at home have names! For 8 long years, "Paul Charles" has been good to me. He was so far the busiest pc in my office room, the reason why I didn't give up with the repair on him.
The Geeks found out that his hard drive was badly damaged and needed to be changed. Gosh! the repair was $160 plus $90 hard drive! It should still be worth it and I promised myself this would be his last repair and I would just let him retire!
So, yesterday, Craig picked him up and gladly revived from a coma! He has a newly installed hard drive. Today, I was able to re-install back the Kaspersky anti-virus on him and a Microsoft Office so Craig can use it for his files.
On the other hand, I got a new pc...HP Pavilion dv7, the fastest, and has the biggest space capacity for files, and has a "beats audio" sound quality. I will give a specific update about her in one of my next posts.
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