Hewlett Packard, the largest technology company in the world, have just unveiled their latest ultraportable laptop, the Pavilion DV2, which by all accounts lies somewhere in between a Netbook and a Notebook.
Netbooks have only been around for a couple of years but already we associate them with low resolution tiny screens, low power and low price. The Pavilion DV2 isn’t a Netbook, but then again you couldn’t quite describe it as a standard laptop either.
The Pavilion DV2 is the first ultraportable laptop to run on AMD’s Athlon Neo processor and if it goes the way AMD would like it to, it will prove to be major competition for Intel Atom processors which have dominated the Netbook market so far.
So what are we getting with the Pavilion DV2 and is it likely to cut it out there with such a variety of Netbooks and Notebooks on the market to choose from?
No joke, ever since the first ultraportable computer was launched way back in 2007, it seems that barely a week has gone by without a new one making an appearance.
This latest offering by HP is super thin measuring only 24mm at its thickest, it has a nice 12.1” screen with a 1,280 x 800 resolution and the keyboard is almost full size at 92% with mirrored touch pad.
It also comes with 320GB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive, 4GB RAM and discrete ATI Radeon HD 3410 graphics chip with 512MB of video memory, HDMI and VGA Video outputs, 3 USB ports, integrated webcam, Ethernet and Wi-Fi connectivity along with Windows Vista Operating system. You also have the option of Blu-ray.
The entire thing weighs in at around 1.8 kg which isn’t too heavy to carry around. The machine looks pretty sexy too, which is another important consideration these days if you’re going to want to be seen out and about with it and that’s exactly what we do with our ultraportables, we take them with us wherever we go.
Ok so there is a down side. It will most probably come with a load of irrelevant pre installed software that HP are fond of loading onto their machines but that’s not really a major issue.
Starting at around £499 in the UK, all in all the Pavilion DV2 is a good enough price without compromising on power but we don’t know yet when it will be available.
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