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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)

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Pros
Thoughtful design; great performance
Cons
Bulky and heavy

Performance: Good: 77
Features: Very Good: 81
Design: Very Good: 89

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	689
Adobe Photoshop	370
Adobe Premiere	499
Ahead Nero	777
Battery Life (Office Applications)	5:58
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	343
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	610
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	9.4
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	22.31
Microsoft Office XP	559
Mozilla	392
Musicmatch Jukebox	508
Number of Included Batteries	1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	51.6
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	42.4
Roxio VideoWave	352
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	100.52
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	58.43
Windows Media Encoder	416
WinZip	448
World Bench 5 Score	86
World Bench 5 Word Score	Good

WorldBench Tests
Multitasking	708

What You Should Know about the 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)

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.