Is This Right?

Maybe I'm missing something, because, admittedly, I don't have all the facts. I've only been looking at the dv4000 for about a week, because of this forum, in fact.

I've read all these great reviews and was this close to ordering it. Well, as we all know, their site was being changed yesterday, they upgraded some notebooks and downgraded others. And adjusted prices. Fair enough, their business, they can do what they want.

However.... something that strikes me about the offerings: I notice they've added* a blue ribbon with the words "Award Winner" and "Dubbed one of PC Magazine's "Best of the Year" products in 2005, the HP Pavilion dv4000" to the dv4000 page. Again, fair enough, they did win awards. With a different computer, though. Am I right? If they no longer offer some of the faster processors, dedicated video card and other things that push it over the average mark, it loses some points, IMHO.

I'm seriously reconsidering buying an HP product, now.

* I don't remember if this blue ribbon was there before today.

 

yep..you got that right.

The award was based on "The HP Pavilion dv4000 is at the top of the multimedia heap, thanks to a host of options ..blah....blah...blah. Now outfitted with the fastest Pentium M out there (the 2.13-GHz Pentium M 770) and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphics, the system offers great gaming performance as well."

.....which it looks like that series no longer offers.

But the true color via the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 graphics card with up to 128MB of shared video memory (for systems customized with at least 512MB of system memory) is sooooooo sweet as well, right? How about that fast
Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 745A (1.80 GHz) it offers now?

 

I would suspect they are eliminating competition to push the DV500T, which is the same screen size, essentially same chassis, etc. Wouldn't be at all surprised if the DV4000 series simply disappears altogether in the coming months.