HP Pavilion dv5000z (2.2-GHz Turion 64 ML-40 processor, 15.4in widescreen with 1280 by 800 resolution and BrightView technology, 1GB DDR333 SDRAM, 120GB hard disk, Windows Media Center Edition 2005, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics)

HP Pavilion dv5000z Review

by Danny Allen

- The 7.4-pound Pavilion dv5000z is the most portable and most attractively priced Media Center notebook we've seen from HP. It performed well in our tests, earning a WorldBench 5 score of 86. The dv5000z is more compact than HP's 17-inch, wide-screen dv8000 series, which is AMD-based, too. Our test unit came with a 2.2-GHz Turion 64 ML-40 processor, though you can customize and get the lower-cost Turion 64 or Sempron mobile CPU. The $1593 model we tested had attractive options: 1GB of memory, a 120GB 4200-rpm hard drive, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a dual-layer DVD± RW drive with LightScribe for burning silk-screen-like labels on CDs and DVDs.