Apr 30
Hands On: HP Pavilion dv2, a 12-inch Non-Netbook
Posted in: laptop, netbook, notebook, Today's Chili, Travel
The 12-inch HP Pavilion dv2 is designed to bridge (and exploit) the gap between netbooks and standard laptops. Its $750 price is true to that credo, though full-fledged budget laptops have been edging down into that space.
The dv2 is lightweight, it’s thin, and it’s billed by HP as a non-netbook–the first laptop to run AMD’s Neo processor. (The Neo is somewhat more powerful than the ubiquitous Intel Atom netbook processor, though still markedly inferior to even an Intel Core 2 Duo processor.) It has a 92%-sized keyboard and lacks a built-in optical drive, though it ships with an external drive. The dv2 does have discrete graphics and 4GB of RAM. Does it have enough going for it to pass muster?
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