Hewlett Packard DV5

The Hewlett Packard DV5 is an Entertainment notebook that is lightweight and mobile. There is a 15.4 inch display that is suitable for TV shows, photos, movies and music. It sports a stylish digital design that features modern lines and durable surfaces with a “liquid metallic appearance” in an innovative, eye-catching colour on both the interior and exterior. It hails from Hewlett Packard’s Pavilion series of Entertainment notebooks. Its design includes a glossy black lid with a subtle crosshatch pattern and a silver keyboard and keyboard tray that is decked out in chrome edging. Besides that, the touch-sensitive media controls are also backlit.

Specifications
The Hewlett Packard DV5 measures 14.05 in x 19.2 in x 1.37 in minimum / 1.65 in maximum (L x W x H) in dimension including its 6-cell battery and weighs approximately 5.84 lbs. It comes with a one year limited hardware warranty with 30-days of free limited software, and 1 year limited hardware. The Hewlett Packard DV5 can run on a genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1 operating system, or a genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Service Pack 1 operating system. It comes in a box together with HP Pavilion WebCam with stereo integrated microphones, one pair of mobile stereo earbud headphones, and HP mobile remote control. The Hewlett Packard DV5 runs on a 6 cell lithium ion battery. Alternatively, it can also be powered via its 65 W AC Adapter. For security purposes, the Hewlett Packard DV5 also has a Kensington MicroSaver lock slot. Besides that, it also has power-on password features as well as accepts third party security lock devices. The Hewlett Packard DV5 incorporates a 2.10 GHz AMD Turion X2 Ultra ZM-80 Dual-Core Mobile Processor as well as a 2 MB L2 Cache on its microprocessor. It also incorporates up to 4096 MB of memory on its SDRAM. The Hewlett Packard DV5 is able to support up to 8 GB on its DDR2 for a 64-bit operating system and up to 5 GB for a 32-bit operating system. In terms of video features, the Hewlett Packard DV5 has an integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics RS780M with up to 1918 MB in memory. It also has a capacity of up to 250 GB on its internal hard disk drive with a data bus speed of 5400 rpm. Its multimedia drive is a LightScribe Super Multi 8x DVD+/- R/RW with Double Layer support. There is also a WXGA high-definition BrightView widescreen that measures 15.4 inches diagonally with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Besides that it also has fax/ modem capabilities via its high speed 56k modem. There is also an integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN network card that offers wireless connectivity for 802.11 b/g WLAN. In terms of sound features, the Hewlett Packard DV5 incorporates Altect Lansing speakers. There is also a 101-key QWERTY keyboard as well as a touch pad with dedicated vertical and horizontal scroll up/ down pad. It also has one ExpressCard/54 slot and also supports ExpressCard/34. In terms of external ports, the Hewlett Packard DV5 has four universal serial bus USB 2.0 ports, forth port that is shared with eSATA, one VGA (15-pin), one HDMI, one RJ-11, one TV-out (S-video), one RJ-45 (LAN), two headphone-out jacks, one microphone-in, one notebook expansion port 3, eSATA + USB 2.0, and one consumer IR. There is also a 5-in-1 integrated digital media reader that is compatible with Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards.

Reviews

“The modern designed HP Pavilion dv5-1032eg, which costs between 800 and 850 Euro at the time of writing, is an interesting combination of playable hardware and a solid case. Furthermore, the keyboard is very good and so is the provided connectivity. The average hard disk and the GDDR2 memory of the graphics card should keep the price low. However, the biggest disadvantage of this notebook is its sticky touchpad. So, using an external mouse is recommended.” (NotebookCheck, 2009)

“HP backs the Pavilion dv5-1002nr with an industry-standard, one-year warranty. Toll-free telephone support is available 24-7 during your warranty period, and the HP support Web site includes real-time chat with a tech representative. If you want to troubleshoot problems yourself, you can search through the site’s thorough FAQ database.” (CNET, 2009)

“There’s much to like about the HP Pavilion dv5-1011ea and it comes pretty close to being an ideal all-round multimedia machine. Indeed, the only thing that holds it back and precludes it from an award, is the slightly disappointing screen. This doesn’t mean you should disregard it completely, its superb design, excellent feature set and reasonable price ensure that, but if you’re interested then it’s worth taking a look at one in the flesh before settling on it.” (TrustedReviews, 2009)