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HP Pavilion hd2000

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Pros
Nicely designed
Cons
Very heavy

Performance: Very Good: 88
Features: Good: 76
Design: Superior: 93

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Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	461
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	430
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	754
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:22:47 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	109.93
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	131.54
Firefox 2	318
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	365
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	245
Multitasking	392
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	795
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	221
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	270
WorldBench 6 Score	86
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the Pavilion hd2000

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.

Reviewed by: parker39

Duration of ownership: 2 Months

Strengths: Very Fast Large Memory HUGE Screen Full Keyboard

Weaknesses: Weight No Computer Bag Made

Overall Evaluation: This is the BEST computer I have ever had. When you look at it, one may think "I dont need all of that", but you do. The full keyboard is very nice. With the 20.1 inch wide screen, you can fit 2 web pages on one screen. The finger reader is very handy so that you only have to put in a username and password once, and it is very secure. The price is very overwhelming, but so is the weight. This computer is worth the $2500+ you will spend on it. If this is going to be your only computer, that is fine. It is more powerful then most desktops. The only downfall of the computer is that there is NO computer bag big enough to hold it. You have to have a small suitcase to carry it around. I would recomend this computer to anyone who wants to have the nicest computer in the office.
Reviewed by: Mason Storm

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Speed, screen, media buttons, remote control, touchpad, keyboard, silence

Weaknesses: Expensive; screen often suddenly becomes very hazy and only a restart can fix it

Overall Evaluation: Have really been enjoying the speed (handles Vista Ultimate 64 without a hitch), the beautiful screen, responsive touchpad and buttons, HD-DVD, & fullsize keyboard. The hardware is fantastic, but I'm supposed to find some flaws to mention here; for the machine itself, that could only be its expense and short battery life (and weight for anyone who was thinking of actually transporting this around like a smaller laptop). The only flies in the ointment really come from the software; e.g. HP's media center, called QuickPlay, has an unintuitive DVD fast-forward-and-return-to-play button arrangement. When you've reached the point where you want to resume playback after fast forwarding, you want to press play (naturally); however, that enters a mode of choppy freeze-frame motion. To actually return to play, you have to keep pressing FF until it has cycled through all of its available FF speeds - and then it will return to regular playback. But that is a small annoyance in an otherwise fantastic machine that is probably powerful enough to be my principal laptop for 5-7 years.