The latest HP Pavilion dm1 dm1z makes a good choice for people looking for an affordable, compact laptop with good overall performance. You get an inch netbook with a traditional rounded clamshell design. The biggest design change here is that the new generation of dm1z laptops feature mostly black plastics with silver accents rather than mostly silver with black accents. Build quality is on par with other HP Pavilion notebooks and HP mini netbooks … meaning slightly above average for a budget laptop.
While the 1. In hands-on use, we found the dm1z, like other laptops in its class, is perfectly fine for Web surfing, sending e-mail, watching HD video, and even light gaming.
If we had the same level of performance in a inch laptop, it might feel sluggish, but in an inch body, it's much better than the Intel Atom Netbooks that were all the rage a year or so ago. Note, however, that the much more expensive MacBook Air and the Samsung Series 3, both with Intel Core i-series chips, were much faster in our tests.
At least AMD also includes better graphics than you might expect in a low-power ultraportable, built right into the same die as the CPU. Playing Street Fighter IV at a resolution of 1,x pixels, we got By dialing back some of the options, you should get a very playable experience on slightly older or less graphically intense games. While the updated hardware in the HP Pavilion dm1z didn't improve battery life, it's still excellent, clocking 5 hours and 18 minutes, a time virtually unchanged from the original, in our video playback battery drain test.
That's better even than the inch MacBook Air, which lasted about 40 minutes less. This is one of the top battery performers in any category. HP includes an industry-standard one-year parts-and-labor warranty with the system. Support is accessible through a toll-free phone line and a well-maintained online knowledge base and driver downloads.
As a sequel to one of our favorite laptops of , the HP dm1z keeps its spot on top of our ultraportable recommendation list, but we still wish the newer processor had resulted in faster performance.
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Wireless Connectivity. Pointing Device. PC Card Slots. External Ports. What's In The Box. There's a basic set of ports and connections here. HP sticks to its single audio jack standard for smaller laptops, and there do not seem to be any mobile broadband options available on HPs Web site right now, although that seems like a natural fit for such a portable system.
Launched at CES , the Fusion APU or "accelerated processing unit" uses a single die to contain, according to AMD, "a multicore CPU, a powerful DirectX capable discrete-level graphics and parallel processing engine, a dedicated high-definition video acceleration block, and a high-speed bus that speeds data across the differing types of processor cores within the design.
In practical use, the system felt much more responsive than even high-end Netbooks, and we ran into only occasional slowdown and sluggishness.
At the same time, it wasn't as smooth an overall experience as one gets with the inch MacBook Air which also costs twice as much. Both game, or others, could be easily tweaked in the setting menus to give better performance. Interestingly, the Intel Sandy Bridge white box laptop we recently tested , which lacked a discrete GPU, but also promised better on-chip graphics performance, ran Street Fighter IV at 1,x pixels at around 27fps, even with a high-end 2.
Though the performance of the Pavilion dm1z's Fusion platform was solid but uninspiring, its battery life was excellent. The system ran for 5 hours and 19 minutes on our video playback battery drain test, which is better than the inch MacBook Air and every other inch laptop we've tested in recent memory. It may not wake up from a sleep state as quickly as a MacBook, but the long battery life should give you close to all-day computing. HP includes an industry-standard one-year parts and labor warranty with the system.
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