HP Pavilion dv5z First Look

Wait T___T they made it even thicker than it already was? I am not liking this any bit.

 

i like this design more then last one actually it is great!

 

This one certainly looks thicker.

 

battery life looks to be around 3 hours. HP's site lists the 6-cell high-capacity battery as having "up to 3 hours 15 minutes" of battery life.

 

^well,that depends on what do you do on that time

 

I think that the dv6000 looked better

 

Thank you, I will check it out.

 

Oh boy, NVIDIA is in big trouble.
AMD/ATI offering an integrated GPU that wipes the floor with an 8400GS?
the HD4850&4870 offering similar performance than the 400$+ Nvidia choices?
On top of that they will have to repair a large number of Laptops because their graphic is faulty? What is going right at NVIDIA at the moment?

I for one am seriously miffed at NVIDIA having CHOOSEN a Notebook with a 8400GS as a power saving GPU for a small notebook such as my XPS 1330.

Now I hear I will most likely have to let my notebook be repaired, while I realize that AMD is offering a faster IGP?


A shame the HD3200 doesn;t come with intel CPUs.

M.

 

Ah, didn't know it would be fairly cheap. Not terrible in that case. If it's just against 15" notebooks, you can easily get 8600GTs, and even 8800GTX cards.

 

Thanks! I have two questions please.

- When is this laptop will be available in the Middle-east?
- When it will be released with Intel Processor and Nvidia graphics card?

Thanks in advance, Ayhamov.

 

General questions about HP screens.

1. Is there a quality difference between the WXGA screen that comes default for the dv5z versus the WSXGA+ screen? I know resolution doesn't make a better screen, but in many cases for other laptops, the lower the resolution of the screen the worst the contrast/brightness/viewing angles/quality gets because manufacturers buy cheap panels for the lower resolution laptops.

2. Is the infinity option only for customizing the look and adding a webcam? Does it affect the screen quality?

3. I am quite new to HP laptops. However, I've played with some in stores that have that clean glossy touchpad or the dimpled looking one, none of which I like. What does this one have?

 

The glossy touchpad. I advise you get an external mouse, I dislike all of HP's touchpads greatly.

 

For those of you interested in the Hybrid Crossfire performance, here's some benchmark for the desktop version. Judging from the 3DMARK06 scores for the individual HD3200 and H3450, the notebook counterparts should have similar performance.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-780g-chipset,1785-10.html

For those of you too lazy to read through the entire article, here's the conclusion.

"When the integrated HD3200 graphics unit is paired with a dedicated Radeon HD3450 to create a Crossfire configuration, graphics performance improved by an average of 65% across the benchmarks. Every single game in our test suite showed gains, ranging from 55% to 87%."

 

Please guys.

 

Sorry but no one works for HP here...so no one will know for sure. And the majority of us are either NA or EU based so we wouldn't know. Also, the intel version should be coming in the next month or so. Another site have already reviewed one.

 

Where can we find that? thanks

Edit: found it http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/hp-pavilion-dv5t-entertainment-notebook-pc.aspx

 

Hm, no firewire, and no GigE port (only 10/100). Too bad, otherwise I'd be all over it.

 

this laptop looks really tempting. I've never used AMD before but I might give them a try.

Also waiting for the full review. Keep up the good work. More power to NBR.

 

It has eSATA so Firewire does not seem that important.

 

Quick question, why would you need Gigabit Ethernet when usually everyone that owns a notebook goes wireless. I mean isn't that the whole point of owning a notebooks to be wireless and free?

 

Hey, I would love to know if there are eSATA cords for digital cameras. Can I buy a cord that goes from my firewire camera to the eSATA port??? If so let me know where I can buy this bad boy. Thanks in advance.

 

Not everyone who uses a notebook uses wireless, but that said, most people using computers probably don't need >10MB/s transfer speed either. I'm a heavy computer users and my 100Mb Ethernet network is rarely a bottleneck (and even when it is I don't really care.

 

I think it looks better than the old design, that one's been around for a long time. The upgraded design looks more "mature/grown-up" and understated, much less "flashy" than the old one. But then again, I'm one who likes to blend in so to each his or her own i guess!

I can't wait to hear more about the integrated graphics in the full review as well. Very interesting with the Hybrid Crossfire and such...

 

nice laptop, but AMD chipset in it is a huge drawback

3:15 hours on high capacity battery!!!

 

hey, when this comes with h3450 gpu, would it also come with built in HD3200 gpu. I just asked from 3 or 4 hp support guys, their answer was NO...

 

It is going to be very interesting how the Intel version compares.

 

I've tried streaming HD video from my living room server over 802.11g to my laptop, can't do it without stuttering. I always wind up having to plug in my CAT6 cable instead if I want to watch a stream.

Likewise, when I have a lot of files to backup from my laptop back to my server, I don't want to wait longer than I have to. My Asus M6Ne from 4 years ago came with a GigE port, why should I buy a new laptop today with a slower NIC?

 

Does anyone know if 6 cell battery protrudes in the back?

 

The high capacity 6 cell(~55Whr) isnt really high capacity. It is only about 15% more than the standard 6 cell(~43Whr). It shares the same shell as the standard 6 cell and fits flush with the chassis. The real high capacity battery is the 12(~88Whr) cell which protrudes out of the chassis but for some reason is not being offered with any of the new series.

 

I Would love to know if there are current consumer digital cameras with firewire still. You must be thinking about Video Cameras but even those are starting to be USB only. Pros maybe but consumers don't mind USB.

 

Oh nevermind, I just now checked the cord and it is indeed USB. I don't why I thought it was firewire. Now that makes me think what in the heck is this firewire for if no products use it?

Anyways so I guess that is a big no for digital cameras and the like to get eSATA cords? Only for external HDD's I suppose.

I don't get why we can't keep it simple, and make everything USB as most things are and conver to USB 3.0 which is supposedly 10 times faster than USB 2.0?