While the computer industry has been abuzz about the netbook phenomenon, vendors of full features laptops have been forced to make deep price cuts on pretty capable machines to clear inventory and recoup lost manufacturing costs. One example of this sort of behavior is from HP, which presents us with the DV3-1075US in their value niche.
Happily, the powerful hardware required to play high definition movies and running the latest games means that the HP Pavilion DV3-1075US also pack enough power for graphic, audio, and video editing, and just about any piece of office software you can imagine.
Capable of playing 720P movies on its 13.3″ widescreen display (identical to the one on the Macbook Air), the DV3-1075US comes with AMD’s dual core Turion processor in 2.1 GHZ. As an added bonus, it comes with 4 gigs of RAM standard, and Windows Vista – and it’s got the muscle and RAM to handle them both nicely.
This laptop sports many features that clearly designed for movies and gaming. The video card is an ATI Radeon HD 3200 with 64 MB of dedicated DDR2 RAM, but the operating system can assign system RAM to it for a total of almost 2 GB of RAM.
The 13.3-inch high-definition screen supports a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, the widescreen movie format. Finally, it comes with a playback remote control, conveniently stored in an Express Card slot when not in use.
The HP Pavilion DV3-1075US is also designed for cyber-age digital communications. It comes with an integrated webcam and omni-directional microphone for video conversations, and supports a fast data transfer. It contains a built-in 10/100/1000 gigabit Ethernet port, and the wireless card supports the faster 802.11g and 802.11n standards, as well as the slower legacy 802.11a.
Other features of note include the nigh universal integrated webcam and microphone, wireless radios (including ‘draft n’ and Bluetooth), and an Ethernet port. Keyboard response was good – it’s a full sized keyboard with good key travel and better than average key spacing. The touchpad has multi-touch drivers, which will probably be a little confusing at first – they make it seem to have a mind of its own.
This is a very complete multimedia laptop with a lot of bells and whistles. A definite must buy for anyone who loves movies, music and games coupled with work. It’s definitely not the best out there but for how much you fork out for it, it’s actually a good deal.
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