Goodbye, boring black and silver. Hello, high fashion. A glam exterior encases the HP Pavilion dv2000t, a sophisticated entertainment notebook that replaces the dv1000.
HP Pavilion dv2000t
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Storage
| Total HD Size | 120 GB |
| Optical Drive Type | DVD+R DL/DVD±RW |
| Optical Drive Speed | 2.4 |
| Removable Optical Drive | No |
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| Number of Media Slots | 3 |
Battery
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Standard Number of Batteries | 1 |
| Type of Batteries | Lithium ion |
| Vendor Rated Battery life | 708 |
Networking
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Included network card | Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) |
| Modem Type | V.92 |
| Wireless LAN Type | 802.11a/g |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition |
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Pros
Excellent battery life
Designer case
Cons
Volume gauge is jumpy
Bottom Line
Offering stunning looks and great battery life, the dv2000t is an excellent home and small-business notebook.
HP Pavilion dv2000t
Pavilion dv2000t Review, by Carla Thornton September 25, 2006
With the Pavilion dv2000t, HP breaks new notebook-design ground with Nissha film imprinting, an advanced molding technique that incorporates attractive patterns into an object's surface. The unit's high-gloss metallic and piano-black finish contains a subtle wave design, just as some cell-phone casings and luxury-car interiors do. (HP has also installed this new design on the Pavilion dv2000z, as well as on a handful of other new consumer and business notebook models.)
The reasonable $1739 (as of 9/8/06) price of our test configuration included one of the first 14.1-inch high-definition notebook wide screens. The Altec-Lansing stereo speakers are first-rate, as well, and plenty loud enough for you to enjoy MP3s and action movies without headphones. The two stereo headphone jacks are nice extras; one is S/PDIF-capable, enabling connection to your surround-sound audio system for pure digital audio.
Multimedia is one touch away via HP's QuickPlay 2.1, a wide-screen menu that launches movies, music, personal videos, and photo slide shows without booting Windows. A new pressure-sensitive membrane bar that runs along the top of the keyboard lets you start QuickPlay and control volume at the touch or swipe of a finger--very snazzy.
Would you rather sit back and relax? With HP's palm-size remote ($15 extra), you can scroll through documents and control media from up to 10 feet away via an infrared receiver on the front of the notebook. You store the remote in the ExpressCard slot when you're not using it. For making face-to-face contact during instant messaging, you can add an integrated 1.3-megapixel Webcam to your configuration ($40, and included in the price of our review system).
Our Windows XP Home review unit (XP Professional is also offered) came with both Wi-Fi and optional Bluetooth wireless communications; a top-of-the-line 120GB, 5400-rpm hard drive; and Microsoft Works 8. The included SuperMulti DVD±RW/R drive comes with LightScribe, which enables the drive to laser-etch grayscale labels on discs. Pavilions come with extra entertainment software, too, including the Muvee AutoProducer consumer movie-creation software and the Sonic MyDVD CD and DVD creator. About the only thing our test machine lacked was a dedicated video card, which you'll want for gaming or other highly graphical applications; a 128MB nVidia GeForce Go 7200 board costs $25 more than the standard integrated video.
The port selection is modest but should satisfy most home users; included are three USB ports, a FireWire port, and a three-in-one media slot that takes SD, xD-Picture Card, and Memory Stick. The extrafirm keyboard is great, and features a touchpad lock. The typing slope is comfy, as well, thanks to the 12-cell battery, which adds three-quarters of an inch to the height of the back of the notebook.
The dv2000t, equipped with a 2.16-GHz Core Duo T2600 processor and 2GB of DDR2-533 SDRAM, turned in a solid WorldBench 5 score of 110, not quite as impressive as the mark of 120 earned by the similarly equipped Micro Express HEL8021. Our unit's 12-cell battery ($39 extra) lasted 7.1 hours in our tests and doesn't add too much extra weight to the fairly light 6.1-pound unit. (We didn't test the standard six-cell battery, which is rated at 4.2 hours.)
To turn the dv2000t into a truly terrific desktop replacement, you'll want the $250 xb3000 Notebook Expansion Base, which includes a port replicator, a screen stand, a premium speaker setup, a hard-drive bay, and a wireless keyboard and mouse. To increase the system's 120GB internal storage (as in our test machine) to desktop PC class, you can get the $450 Base with a 300GB hard-drive kit.
A couple of ease-of-use quibbles: I had to turn the pointer speed all the way up to revive the cursor, which seemed to drag due to the touchpad's thick glossy finish. And as cool as I found the volume-control membrane, even carefully executed swipes turned sound all the way up or down, requiring additional adjustment taps. In this case, at least, the old-fashioned volume wheel still has the edge.
But those are minor issues. The dv2000t is an excellent home and small-business notebook for the money, and its stunning wave-design casing will turn heads wherever you take it.
Carla Thornton
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Performance
| ACD Systems ACDSee | 534 |
| Adobe Photoshop | 314 |
| Adobe Premiere | 395 |
| Ahead Nero | 269 |
| Battery Life (Office Applications) | 7:08 |
| Discreet 3ds Max DirectX | 343 |
| Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL | 544 |
| Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 5.17 |
| Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit | 10.84 |
| Microsoft Office XP | 545 |
| Mozilla | 372 |
| Musicmatch Jukebox | 469 |
| Number of Included Batteries | 1 |
| Roxio VideoWave | 260 |
| Windows Media Encoder | 277 |
| WinZip | 289 |
| World Bench 5 Score | 110 |
| World Bench 5 Word Score | Superior |
WorldBench Tests
| Multitasking | 448 |
Average User Reviews for HP Pavilion dv2000t
- Latest User Reviews 1 review
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Reviewed by: MustangGT
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: lightweight, good looking case. easy to read screen. easy to use controls.
Weaknesses: HP customer service
Overall: Bought unit and had for 2 weeks when unit would not turn on. Sent into HP for repair. 16 days later unit arrived back and when pulled out of box unit was still not working. Resent unit back into HP and 30 days later I had still not received unit back. MANY phone calls to numerous case managers and 6 days later I finally got them to send me a new unit. Total time without unit=52 days. HP case managers are no help in getting units repaired. They will give you canned anwsers to your questions, i.e time for unit repair, they will tell you is 3-5 business days. They also have no way to talk to the repair facility other than e-mail which in this day and age unacceptable.
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Reviewed by: datsel
Strengths: Screen is beautiful, bright. Size is perfect to be mobile, and lightweight.
Weaknesses: Poor trackpad buttons; lots of wasted pre-loaded software.
Overall: I've had my dv2000t for half a year now. The laptop come with with many pre-install software. The spec was great and I haven't had any problem with this machine yet except the touchpad. The touchpad was terrible, it was so difficult to use. Overall, this is a great laptop. I would recommend this laptop to anyone who needs something reliable and portable.
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Reviewed by: Viet Rap Electronic Inc
Strengths: Very good!
Weaknesses: None so far!
Overall: The HP Pavilion dv2000t. It features an all-new, scratch-resistant, high-gloss piano black finish that?s accented with a subtle wave pattern. I believe this is the best laptop in the world!
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Reviewed by: gogo0319
Overall: I bought a Hp dv2000, in less a month it can't power on, so I call the customer service witch I believe the line transfer to India, after 2 days of discussion, talk to 3 customer guys each time on many calls (appox 30~45 mins), finally I can ship it back to their repair center.After repair center received my notebook 3 days, they call me ask my permission to re image the hard drive, I gave it and I find out I have some personal data the I don't have back up (the notebook can't power on). after 10 mins I call ask them if this is only way to fix it. I spent 4 days and appox 4~5 on phone ( most of time is waiting and transfer) to talk to customer service, tech guys, case manager, they said they will call you back after they find out the status and they never call back or 2 days late still no answer. they don't transfer you to their repair center.about 2 weeks finally I got notebook back, there is certificate inside the box telling you their 22 points check up and bla bla bla, the notebook has no sound driver, wrong vga driver (600 by 800 or 1024 by 768 not for 14.1 wide screen), bad wireless lan (red light), question marks on device manager, the best is a screw on the keyboard, and I find out 3 missing screws on the back of the notebook cover.I really like the new design of HP notebook, some friend have no problem at all, but if you got a lemon like me, you need to spend long time to get your right.
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Reviewed by: jkalyan
Strengths: Stylish look, good usability, touch screen buttons , brightview widescreen, lightweight.
Weaknesses: no HDI, new docking station (port replicator), finger prints on glossy black top surface ( needs regular wipe to look neat ),not very impressive webcam quality (especially in dark lights)
Overall: I just got my new Hp dv2000t laptop. It looks really awesome , Hats-off to HP for an awesome design. The Imprint finish is really attractive.It has very nice improvements to previous version hp dv1000 series. My specification are as follows: - - Genuine Windows XP Home Edition - Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T5600 (1.83 GHz) - FREE Upgrade to 14.1" WXGA BrightView Widescreen!! - Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - HP IMPRINT Finish + Microphone + Webcam - 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB) - 100 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive - LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer - Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth - No TV Tuner w/remote control - 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery - Microsoft(R) Works/Money - System Recovery DVD w/Windows XP Home Edition - Mobile Stereo Earbud Headphones (1 pair) - HP Mobile Remote Control The system works really well, its not getting heated and working fast using all benefits of dual core technology. It has a omnidirectional microphone of very good clarity catching voices clearly in a decent sized room wirelessly. Overall , the system is excellent and weighs only 5.29 lbs.
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