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HP Pavilion dv2000t

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Pros
Excellent battery life
Designer case
Cons
Volume gauge is jumpy

Performance: Superior: 90
Features: Good: 78
Design: Very Good: 87

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

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

What You Should Know about the Pavilion dv2000t

Multitask and Not Bog Down

The more memory a PC has, the faster your programs run and the more windows you can work in simultaneously. Equipped with memory between 1GB and 3GB, this laptop should be able to handle just about any task you can throw at it without bogging down too much. For instance, if you're a multitasker and you'd like to burn a music CD in one window while watching your favorite DVD movie (for the umpteenth time) in another--while flipping between your inbox and your browser to work on your blog during the movie's boring parts--this laptop can manage it all without a hiccup.

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 Evaluation: 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.
Reviewed by: datsel

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Screen is beautiful, bright. Size is perfect to be mobile, and lightweight.

Weaknesses: Poor trackpad buttons; lots of wasted pre-loaded software.

Overall Evaluation: 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.