After almost a year, I am happy to report my DV6-6168TX is still going strong. Some scratches on the aluminum cover, but otherwise no problems.

After more than two years, my DV6-6168TX is still working well. Even more scratches on the aluminum cover and some on the wrist rest (because of metal watch strap), but otherwise no problems.

I'm using the latest drivers from this page.

This laptop is more durable than my previous ASUS and Acer.

This post has been edited by elco-ph: Nov 22 2013, 04:33 PM

Hi everyone. Been a long while since my last post (December 20, 2011). I use my DV6-6168TX almost every day and it has been a reliable workhorse.

A few days ago, I decided to upgrade to an SSD.

Instead of reinstalling Windows, I used a disk cloning tool to copy my old hard drive to the SSD.

Now my DV6 is very very fast!

Here are some photos:

Plug and play. No adapter needed.

Yes 1TB SSD.

I was able to justify the expense because:
(1) The laptop is used for work (Sales Department).
(2) There are many photos and videos stored that are used daily in Sales activities.
(3) The time it would take for the Sales Team to trim the amount of videos to fit a smaller SSD or to transcode them to a smaller format would cost the company 2 days salary for 2 staff.
(4) The salary of 2 staff for 2 days is more than the cost of a 1TB SSD.

So it was actually a good decision on the part of my boss.

Also, the day after it was installed, the Sales Department managed to close a big account. So the 1TB SSD already paid for itself.

I used "AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 5.5."

I removed the old 1TB HDD from the laptop and plugged it into my PC. Then I got the new 1TB SSD and also plugged it into my PC. Then I used AOMEI to clone the drives.

Simple and fast. No need for Windows to shut down and reboot in a proprietary OS like what Acronis does. Copy speed was around 100MB/second.