HP dm3t, dm3z, dv6t/dv7t/dv8t QUAD EDITIONS now on sale!

New notebooks are now available online, for sale at the HP Official Store.

dm3t - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...ory&v1=Ultra-Portable&series_name=dm3t_series

dm3z - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...ory&v1=Ultra-Portable&series_name=dm3z_series

dv6t Quad Edition - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...dv6tqe_series&a1=Category&v1=High performance

dv7t Quad Edition - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...v1=High+performance&series_name=dv7tqe_series

dv8t Quad Edition - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...v1=High+performance&series_name=dv8tqe_series

The Quad Edition Pavilion notebooks all start with the following base configuration of:

• Intel Core i7-720QM processor
• 2 GB DDR3 memory
• 1 GB GeForce GT 230M graphics

Note that the HDX18 has now been delisted, while the HDX16 remains but not refreshed.

Refreshed now using DDR3 memory:

dv4t - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...ame=dv4t_series&a1=Category&v1=Ultra-Portable

dv6t standard - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...v1=Everyday+computing&series_name=dv6t_series

dv7t standard - http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...y&v1=High+performance&series_name=dv7t_series

The ENVY line is also now on sale -- see http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=426242 for more info.

 

The DM3's are looking pretty good. Would buy those instead of the Envy 13.

 

How fast is :


Intel Core i7-720QM processor(1.6 ghz)
4 GB DDR3 memory
1 GB GeForce GT 230M graphics


I have not heard much about the new i7 so I want to be sure if I go ahead with this.

recently as last week returned my HDX16 because of some issues that it had, so I want to replace it. and I'm kinda skeptical about going with a base processor. and I would have to because the 1.73 is like $400 more.

So Should I wait to see if they would come up with more options for this laptop?
and How good are the new Quads?

 

Check out this dv7 with Turion II at Best Buy:
HP Pavilion dv7-3065dx
$730 for 17.3" 1600x900 LED LCD, Blu-ray, Win7 HPE, 500GB 7200RPM, 4GB RAM, 2.4GHz Turion II CPU. Only Radeon 3200 HD integrated video, 100Mbps Ethernet, 802.11g, and no Bluetooth though. Still, for that price, AMAZING deal. I may have to buy one. The Turion II is derived from the 45nm Phenom II so battery life should be much improved, as the printed specs suggest. Performance clock-to-clock is improved too.

 

Anyone know of any early reviews/hands-on impressions of the HP dm3t? Combined with the Bing CB deal it looks pretty tempting but I'd at least like to hear of others' experiences first.

 

Intel Core i7-720QM processor(1.6 ghz)

I7 - 45w part. Can run turbo to meet that TDP and current workload.

Turbo Mode:
1.6GHz base / 1.73GHz 4 cores / 2.4GHz 2 cores / 2.8GHz 1 core

The higher i7's are more aggressive, but i7 720 should be better than most core 2 duos in real world situations.

 

How good are the new Turion II CPU's?
I'm not sure I can stretch to the i7 specced DV6 is it worth the extra performance?

 

I'm wondering why the dm3t and dm3z screens are 13.3" but 1280x800, while the HP Mini 311 is 11.6" but 1366x768. I want more screen resolution!!

 

The DM3s are 1366x768. Im buying a DM3z today, what a deal, forget the Sony Z. metal case, HD3200 IGP with dedicated RAM and a dual core 18watt cpu.

Turion II cpus will work just fine for anyone. I have a desktop 780G with a dual core 2.5Ghz with older, slower (half the speed) hypertransport and it still rocks with the HD3200 IGP.

 

But the HP webpage says 1280x800 when configuring the screen?

 

I purchased the DM3z with Turion neo and Ati 4330. With the 25% bing cashback I couldn't resist. Does anyone know if the ATi 4330 is gonna decrease the battery life from the estimated 6 hours. I really hope to get about 5 hours of battery life outta her.

Now to sell my old one....see sig

 

Does the 25% bing cashback work? On bing they only show 5% for HP

 

you have to type hp into bing search. then click the ad link on top that says 25% cashback, refresh the page if it doesnt show the first time.

 

Thanks youre awesome, do you know if it still works with the student discount through HP, the APP?

 

Yeah thats strange, and the sales person insisted the HP product page I had was wrong and the Sears sale of the dm3-1030us is wrong that says 1366x768

However, this service manual says the DM3 is 1366x768
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01893277.pdf

I also just did online chat with tech support and they confirmed it is 1366x768

 

Which GPU is better? The ati 4330 or the nvidia 105M? I need a suggestion before I jump on the dm3t or dm3z... Everything else is the same right?

 

I appears they changed the terms of bing cashback to now not include APP (as of October). Which sucks, it would have made this deal, mind-blowing. I'm still happy non the less.

 

The 4330 is about 20% better than 105M, the dm3z will most likely run Win7 more smoothly, more snappy, especially with same specs, like same HDD and same WLAN and RAM.

 

It worked today when I ordered it with APP.

 

Purchasing now....

 

Unfortunately HP can cancel your Bing cash for using the APP program, or using any coupon code. I found the Bing Cash FYI that says starting 1 Oct HP stopped honoring stacked discounts, and they liekly will cancel the Bing CashBack, which is the greater discount.

 

I would not expect to get 5 hours battery life. Probably only 4 hours with light load and half brightness. That is like the DV2z with the single core NEO and the HD3410.

I ordered the Turion Neo and HD3200 because it will still handle HD video fine and I think the Turion and the 780 chipset will compliment eachother best for optimum power states. I dont plan on gaming with it, so was looking for best battery life with most capability at least price. The Intel setup cost more but would do less, however last longer on battery with its crummy IGP.

 

In regards to the Dm3
Everyone seems to be leaning towards TUrion processor and ATI.
If money and battery life werent an issue, would you go for the top spec Intel sp9300 with the Nvidia GPU?

 

I didn't go with the AMD though I keep wondering maybe i should have. I went with the intel, but not the top spec. The sp9300 to me was overkill for power and battery usage. Obviously, since battery isn't an issue for you, you might be more intrigued by it.

Personally speaking, I've always used Intel laptops and desktops. Not once have I gone with an AMD (though this time I was very close to choosing them over the Intel.)

Also reasons why I went with the Intel.....it comes standard with DDR3 Ram, though at this point everyone tells me it's not any different than the DDR2 pretty much. And secondly, I was able to add a 7200RPM 500GB HD that the AMD did not offer.

 

FYI guys/gals,
Office Depot has the HP DM3-1030us for sale this week for only $499 after mail-in rebates:
LINK

Quick specs:
AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 (1.6GHz)
4GB RAM
320 GB 7200RPM drive
802.11a/b/g/Draft-N; Bluetooth
ATI Radeon HD3200 w/HDMI
4 USB 2.0; 1 HDMI; 1 Ethernet; 1 VGA 15-pin D-sub

I'm thinking about picking one up.

 

Personally speaking, I've always used Intel laptops and desktops. Not once have I gone with an AMD (though this time I was very close to choosing them over the Intel.)

As did I ... on both counts.

But i decided you get a bit of both worlds:
The better processing power of the sp9300 as well as the energy savings on DDR3 (that was the only main benefit i could find compared to DDR2. Would that be a correct statement?)

What im assuming is, the High spec Intel is going to be slightly faster than the high AMD spec and using the same amount of power or possibly slightly less.

Being a newbie, this is an assumption, of course..

 

Well DDR3 is SUPPOSED to run cooler and is faster than DDR2. As for the SP9300, it should be definitely faster than the AMD. As for power, the SU9300 uses more wattage than the AMD. So even though you'll have DDR3 RAM which will run cooler, it won't make up for how much warmer the SU9300 runs compared to the AMD.

But again, my main draw was that I have always used Intel, and have not experienced any problems, so really there was no need to go with AMD at this stage. Also, I hear people saying the AMD will perform better, but I cannot believe it will perform so much so that it'd blow the Intel out of the water. I'd guess that the AMD IF it ran faster is only going to be slightly faster. So thus, I went with Intel. A brand I know and trust. In the end, if I would have picked AMD, it would only have been if the performance was definitely much better than the Intel. Which at this point I don't think it is.

 

the thing that sucks about the amd build is ati... They just don't support their own hardware. The last 2 computers I got with ati ( an acer and an hp) ati either didn't even have the card listed, or it only supported certain manufacturers. With nvidia I have never seen this issue before yet, they support their cards alot better from my experience.

 

OTOH, ATI chips don't burn out like NVIDIA's did for a few years. I just resurrected a second HP notebook that had a fried NVIDIA 8400GS. While not being able to get laptop video drivers direct from ATI is annoying, I simply don't trust NVIDIA for any new machine purchases.

 

There is a price to performance advantage with the AMD system, graphically better in both respects, and on par computing wise for less cost. If battery life is not independent of performance then Intel gets a boost there.

The SP9300 will kill the NEO in computing, no argument there, but the SU7300 is probably on par, but I have found my AMD systems to run Windows and Office faster.

The ATI is better than the Nvidia if gaming is the intent, and the Intel processor is not going to make up for it. ATI has gotten a lot better with drivers since AMD acquired them. HP and Acer however usually desires that people only download drivers from them, so they get "special" models, so you cant blame ATI for that. Nvidia has support issues too, you just havent run into them yet, but ATI is as good or better with customer support, especially with older hardware.

I think the DDR3 thing is minimal enough it doesnt matter really. The DDR3 will not help performance of the cpu either, because its on a 200Mhz FSB. The only way DDR3 helps is the IGP, if it can access RAM faster than the cpu.

 

My guess is that the processor will make a difference gaming wise but its hard to tell.

I'm hoping when alot of you guys get your amd builds that we can get together and test them on games and stuff and get a good comparison of the two.

Also FYI people the bing.com 25% off cashback deal is still going on through today. Order it first like that and don't regret being to late to cancel and reorder like i am

 

Yeah, the SP9300 costs you a premium in both dollars and battery life (which will likely bring it closer in line to the AMD system battery life with more powerful computing)

My intent for an ultra portable isnt power computing. Microsoft office, travel, movies, websurfing, etc..

I have no doubt the Neo X2 and the HD3200 will handle some simple games too if ever desired.

I got the Blu-ray player with mine, total $220 in cash back through BING.

 

I'm willing to give the i7 dv7t another shot, but no backlit keyboard. Bah.

 

cpus, even 'lowly' celeron 1.2Gz, are usually (always) waiting for disk drive and ram data. Time spend in idle/wait states equals money wasted.

Spending a pile of $$ on the fastest/best i7 cpu when those chips are saddled with the same disk drives and memory that you'd put on a slower C2D is not a good way to spend your $$$.

 

A decently sized SSD still costs a lot of $$$. Besides, hard drives can be upgraded later, CPUs cannot (without voiding warranty).

 

Depends on what you're doing with the machine. A low end i7 doing video encoding work with 8 cores running blows the doors off a C2D.

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9554671&type=product&id=1218123526907

this looks real nice.

still waiting for those AMDs Turion II reviews.

 

Only if you can get the data off of the disk drive.

 

doesn't matter with video editing , most of the data will be store in ram and then transfered to the hardrive.

Even if you take a 1.8 gb file , if it takes you 2 minutes to encode it. A slow 50MB/s drive will be able to transfer that in less than a minute.

 

132w under use... LOTS of Heat!

http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=33921,36727,43126

Mode Consumption 122W
Max Consumption 132W

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1084/11/

The new Clarksfield i7-920XM isn't substantially faster than the old Core 2 QX9300 when it comes to running highly threaded code. The problem is that when running highly threaded code, Clarksfield's Turbo modes aren't able to fully activate. We end up with a Core i7 running at 2.26 GHz compared to a Core 2 running at 2.53 GHz, and overall performance is relatively close. Clarksfield is 6% faster in SMP CINEBENCH, 14% faster in the second x264 pass, and 12% faster at DivX encoding. The first x264 pass is basically a tie.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3647&p=5