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The lid isn’t completely reflective, and the palm rest, display bezel, touchpad, and keyboard all have matte finishes. In fact, HP told us it made a point to avoid glossy surfaces with the dm1z.
The textured lid might not be to everyone’s taste, but it’s a heck of a lot nicer than a glossy mirror finish that would act as a magnet for smudges. Folks who prefer to forgo the confines of touchpads for the comfort of wireless mice will no doubt appreciate that feature.Īs we said, the dm1z is quite the looker.
#HP PAVILION PC 500 164 NO AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE INSTALLED BLUETOOTH#
HP also gets brownie points for including Bluetooth in the base config. A decent number of pricier, full-sized laptops are still saddled with 5,400-RPM drives, which aren’t exactly known for their responsiveness. Nothing too out of the ordinary here, although it’s nice to see a 7,200-RPM hard drive included. Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 320GB 2.5″ 7,200 RPM hard driveġ RJ45 10/100 Ethernet via Realtek controllerĨ02.11b/g/n Wi-Fi via Ralink RT5390 controllerīluetooth 3.0 via Ralink Motorola BC8 controllerġ1.4″ x 8.4″ x 0.8-1.2″ (290 x 214 x 20-30 mm) Processorġ1.6″ TFT with 1366×768 resolution and LED backlight For all intents and purposes, we’re looking at the cheapest configuration today.
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The base $449.99 model on HP’s website has only 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive, but right now, HP offers free upgrades to 3GB and 320GB. The chart below provides a more detailed overview of the dm1z’s specs. You can do real work on this puppy-not just wear your finger to the bone scrolling down web pages clearly not designed for 600 pixels of vertical space. There’s some wiggle room to that definition, but here, we’re dealing with something substantially more grown-up: an 11.6″ panel with a 1366×768 resolution, a dual-core processor with out-of-order execution, a generous amount of RAM, a non-crippled version of Windows, and a decent-sized keyboard and touchpad.
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To us, a netbook typically has a 10.1″ display with a claustrophobic 1024×600 resolution, an Atom processor (or something equivalent), a gig of RAM, and Windows 7 Starter. Some might be tempted to call the dm1z a netbook, especially considering the price, but we think that would be misleading. Note that we’re using the term “ultraportable” to define this system. HP has just put a fresh coat of paint on the concept-with, to some degree, an almost Apple-like attention to detail. The Pavilion dm1z shouldn’t look too unfamiliar if, like us, you’ve seen one or two 11.6″ budget ultraportables in the past. Both AMD and HP could have real winners here. The dm1z seemed pretty well-built when we played with it at the Consumer Electronics Show, as well. I mean, hey, it starts at only $450, packs some rather decent hardware, and looks quite dashing. AMD knows better than anyone how poor run times can ruin an otherwise compelling mobile platform-just look at, well, pretty much all of its past ultraportable platforms.Ĭompetitive comparisons aside, we’re also curious to see if this HP notebook is any good on its own. The performance picture shouldn’t hold too many surprises, but we still don’t know what to expect from the E-350 on the battery life front.
Now, we’ve already tested AMD’s E-350 chip quite extensively, first as an engineering sample at AMD’s Austin campus then in a desktop config pitted against the finest desktop CPUs on the market. With the latter retailing for upward of $550 these days, the dm1z is a potential bargain. HP prices this system in the no-man’s-land between netbooks and CULV ultraportables.
Join us in welcoming the HP Pavilion dm1z, a $450 ultraportable with an 11.6″ display and a 1.6GHz AMD E-350 processor fresh out of TSMC’s 40-nm fabs in Taiwan. Today, we’re about to see if Brazos in its most powerful incarnation can give Intel’s CULV platform a run for its money. The Aspire pulls off run times in the same league as the Atom-powered Eee PC 1015PN, too, and it even has a lower asking price. That machine’s C-50 APU keeps up with Intel’s dual-core Atom N550 while offering far better integrated graphics. We recently caught a glimpse of Brazos’ most affordable and lowest-power dual-core configuration inside the Acer Aspire AO522, which we called “the best netbook we’ve ever tested.” We weren’t kidding. With the Brazos platform and the Fusion APUs within, however, AMD looks like it may finally have its ducks in a row. AMD has taken its sweet time concocting an answer to Intel’s dynamic duo of Atom and Consumer Ultra Low-Voltage processors.
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