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HP Pavilion Dv4000

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Pros
Elegant design
Cons
Sluggish WorldBench performance

Performance: Good: 78
Features: Good: 79
Design: Good: 77

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	779
Adobe Photoshop	371
Adobe Premiere	572
Ahead Nero	1346
Battery Life (Office Applications)	3:23
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	441
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	517
Microsoft Office XP	586
Mozilla	447
Musicmatch Jukebox	571
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave	447
Windows Media Encoder	454
WinZip	514
World Bench 5 Score	77
World Bench 5 Word Score	Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	782

Performance
WorldBench 5: Performance word scores reflect comparisons of notebooks in the same category running the same operating system. See Guide to the Top-Rated Products for more details.	Very Good: 77 (Windows XP Home)
CPU	1.86-GHz Pentium M 750
Screen size	15.4-inch wide screen
System memory	1024MB of DDR333 SDRAM
Hard drive	80GB
Graphics	Intel 915GM Express using main memory
Pointing device	Touchpad
Multipurpose bay	Yes
Optical drive	DVD+R DL/DVD?RW drive
Floppy drive	No
Ports	USB 2.0, FireWire, microphone and headphone jacks, S-Video, one PC Card slot
Communications	V.92 modem, 10/100Base-T ethernet, 802.11g
Included software	Microsoft Works 8, Microsoft Money 2005, InterVideo WinDVD Creator 2
Other features	Six-in-one media card reader
Overall design	Very Good
Battery life (hours:minutes)	3:23
Weight (typical/minimum, in pounds): Typical weight includes the computer, AC adapter, optical drive, and floppy drive (if offered).	7.6/6.7
Support policy	One-year parts and labor warranty; 24-hour daily toll-call support

What You Should Know about the Pavilion Dv4000

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.

Reviewed by: Bocard

Duration of ownership: 10 Months

Strengths: Soud and display capabilities Great processor

Weaknesses: The time supported by battery decresa very fast with the usage. The Windows XP Pro shiow degradations after two months, I need to reinstall everything each time

Overall Evaluation: Good for office usage. Perfet to see DVDs