Analysis Of HP Dv5z 1001x Laptop Computer

Our design with all the choice obtainable (minus the tremendous 320gb hard drive space) tickled the $1500 cost range making this middle class for pocket alter, but on the other hand, a base specification Dv5z can run as low as $900 (without having incentives).

If you opt for this new Puma platform, you might get away with squeezing your pennies and purchasing the lower clocked ZM-80 chip, and upgrading later but when its there, and it doesnt hurt you wallet, may I recommend getting the ZM-82 clocked in at two.2ghz. One thing a lot a lot more? No, but if you would like this spending budget consciousness to last more than 2 years, I recommend it.

Using the Blu-Ray drive even though the ATI 3200 IGP is well enough for handling decoding, HP doesnt give you the choice of that, and makes you upgrade towards the 3420. Not a large action, but a step within the right direction with its 256mb of devoted graphics memory.

Some superb features on the Dv5z worth mentioning are its TvTuner capabilities. With Windows Ultimate, there is a slew of analog / digital input choices which can be catered to your configuration. And while this isnt a large display of any nature, at 15.4 it can run a good second monitor input whilst on the desk. Watching Michael Phelps win in a second in HD whilst typing by myself laptop computer next to it was a deal with.

Nay the aftermarket paint idea, the color tone is neutral, sporting a carbon fiber searching black lid, impressive silver chassis, along with a latchless LCD screen. Two points for latch much less designs! Way to go HP! Something to bear in mind using the unit on it makes the HP logo on the outer side glow and glow constantly. I found it annoying, some may discover it cool, but when youre trying to sleep or maintain down the ambient light for a dark presentation, or even watching a movie a huge glowing LOGO just doesnt fare nicely. It does fare well if youre a brand lover but, typically, having the choice to turn this off will be most welcomed, if not albeit better battery existence too.

The size isnt more than bearing. Our unit using the 6 cell standard battery ticked in at roughly 5 and 3/4 pounds and whilst the dimensions remain the same mostly within this category, having a non-staggering dimension layout of 14.05" x 10.2". Size is normal, weight is typical thankfully.

The keyboard is a silver matt, and whilst offered decent tactile, was a bit lost when it came to night typing. The higher reverse contrast on the LCD using the black kind created it difficult to distinguish some Fn keystrokes but with little effort, they were learned.

The second striking function right after opening the lid (right after noticing the shiny chassis) are the shiny touchpad. Even although not revolutionary, it offered decent tracking, side scrolling, click response and overall had a good really feel to it.

Ok, so you take the greatest of the digital worlds (HD and Blu-Ray), combine them with a great digitial output? Incredible! Needless to say, finding a similar output on a 15.four model without spending hundreds (if not close to a thousand) more dollars will be hard pressed. Yes the recently reviewed Lenovo SL400 carried this, however it did not have a 1680x1050 show, a Blu-Ray drive, nor an E-sata port.Im getting ahead of myself. Read for that breakdown:

Memory can be configured a few ways, which can handle as much as 4GB of internal memory, which is what our program shipped out with. This is the max this unit can accept, and gratefully utilized it with the Operating system being Windows Vista Ultimate the 64bit edition.

Hard drive capacity is an additional relative upgrade, with HPs website listing upwards of 320gb. Our model came with 160gb at 5400 rpm decent storage.