At your leisure
Enjoy your favorite music, view and edit your photos and videos, play games, or do some serious office work. The Pavilion dv6-3010us Entertainment Notebook lets you do all this and more. With the latest AMD Vision platform installed you can even run multiple applications at once so you can work and play at the same time.
Classy understated design
HP has redesigned the mid-sized Pavilion to give it a characteristic classy and subtly understated appearance. The exterior has the same slightly textured “HP Imprint” geometric designs on a molded plastic surface of previous Pavilions but here it is reinterpreted in a semi-gloss champagne color inside and out. The bezel frames the screen in a glossy black while the keyboard and large HP Clickpad (touchpad) in matte black provide an elegant contrast. The screen display is a full 15.6 inch diagonal with HP BrightView HD LED at 1366x768 resolution giving your movies, games and 3-D graphics a bright, clear and colorful look.
Instant keyboard access
The full-size, island-style keyboard is supplemented by a row of media shortcut keys down the left hand side which give you quick access to your email, internet browser, DVD recorder and printer. There is even a button that brings up a calculator. The sensitive touchpad seems to resemble the Apple MacBook Pro with the mouse buttons one part of the unified design and may take you some adjustment to get comfortable.
A respectable competitor
Every major manufacturer competes for the top of the line of mid-range entertainment computers: see the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch, the Acer Aspire AS5741-6073, and the Toshiba Satellite L665D-S5066 to name a few. Cisco Cheng at PC Magazine named the Samsung R580 his ‘Editor’s Choice’ as a desktop replacement for its i5 CPU and Blu-Ray drive. The HP Pavilion dv6 series is a solid competitor though its AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile Processor P520 (2.3 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache) is considered by some reviewers to give less than optimum performance when compared to others in the same class.
Just like its rivals, this model features a big 320GB SATA serial ATA hard drive and exceeds them all with the hard drive rotation at 7200 RPM.
Just like its rivals, this model features a big 320GB SATA serial ATA hard drive and exceeds them all with the hard drive rotation at 7200 RPM.
Industry standard hardware
While the processor may not compare favorably with others that employ Intel Core i3 or i5 CPUs, AMD’S Vision platform supports faster DDR3 memory, HyperTransport 3 and Direct X 11. The laptop comes with an ample 4GB DDR3 system memory (expandable with two memory slots) and integrated ATI Radeon HD 4250 graphics card.
It carries all the usual ports and slots you might expect in this class: 3 USB 2.0 ports and a fourth combo USB shared with eSATA, an integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN with an RJ-45 connector, Bluetooth and Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n WLAN. Around the exterior you will also find a multi-format multimedia card reader, headphone and microphone jacks, and both VGA and HDMI video ports for output to larger monitors and televisions. The HP TrueVision Webcam is not as high on resolution as some but comes with an integrated digital microphone. Audio output from two Altec Lansing stereo speakers is more than adequate for light listening to music or movies. There is also a sturdy dual-layer DVD burner built in.
Conclusion
Reviewers agree that for wireless connectivity, audio and video, this laptop offers real speed and clarity although it lags slightly behind its competitors on performance. Like mid-range champagne, the HP Pavilion dv5-3010us entertains in a classy, understated way but may fall slightly short for those who desire the best. Currently on sale at amazon
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