HP Pavilion DV2-1110US 12.1-Inch Entertainment Laptop

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.4 x 1.3 inches ; 3.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002BH4O70
• Item model number: NV214UA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,219 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 5, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Want a thin, lightweight notebook PC with everything you’re looking for? Buy an HP Pavilion dv2 series Entertainment Notebook PC. Work and play on the go using a nearly full-size keyboard and a 12.1-inch diagonal widescreen display. Play and burn CDs and DVDs using an external multimedia drive. Plus, show off your sense of style with the sleek magnesium-aluminum alloy casing, color-matched with the HP Imprint finish on the inside.

 

SPECIFICATIONS:

Processor:
1.60GHz AMD Athlon^™ Neo Processor for Ultrathin Notebooks MV-40

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Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista^® Home Premium with Service Pack 1

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Display:
12.1" Diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display

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Hard Drive:
250 GB

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Memory (RAM):
2 GB

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Graphics Card:
ATI Mobility Radeon^™ HD Premium Graphics 3410 with M82-SE LP with up to 1278MB total graphics memory with 512MB dedicated

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Wireless:
Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN

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Battery:
6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery

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Weight & Dimensions (w x d x h):
3.81lbs; 11.5" x 9.45" x 0.93"/1.29"

 

EXQUISITELY THIN
Refining the dv series to achieve optimal mobility, the new dv2 wears a magnesium-aluminum alloy case, an LED display and a 92% of full-size keyboard. It offers optional WWAN, runs on breakthrough energy-efficient AMD processors and removes the internal optical drive. The elegant modern lines and metalized finishes that define the dv series remain but with a profile less than 1" thin and starting weight of just 3.81lbs. Lustrous magnesium-aluminum alloy casing on the outside is complemented by color-matched HP Imprint finish on the inside in Moonlight white. External optical drives are available in Espresso black. HP’s mobile products have won coveted International Red Dot, iF and CES Innovation design awards and been recognized by other leading design institutions.

 

SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING
Carry on your favorite entertainment with the standard, large-capacity hard drive. Burn CDs and watch DVD films with the external optical drive. Providing more choices than ever, HP MediaSmart enables access to DVDs, videos, photos, music, and Internet⁽¹⁾ TV at the touch of a button. Get access to watch the best video clips from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and MTV. Built-in demos show you how to add music to your slide shows or videos with drag-and-drop functionality—and much more. An HDMI port enables you to watch films on an HD TV. Muvee Reveal makes creating films complete with effects and transitions a snap! SRS Premium Sound pours through Altec Lansing speakers delivering great audio.

SHOW OFF
Designed specifically for small, ultra-portable notebooks, the new energy-efficient AMD Athlon^™ Neo 64 processors deliver a full PC experience and true HD entertainment. Their breakthrough design enables longer battery life. And ultimate affordability.

 

SUPER-LEAN; FULLY-LOADED
For those who want an ultra thin and fully functional notebook at a great value, the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment PC delivers the next evolution in a notebook experience. Ultra thin starting at just 3.81lbs, the dv2 provides the functionality not normally found in premium thin-and-light notebooks or in ultra-portable netbooks: Windows Vista^®, large hard drive sizes and standard connectivity options including HDMI and a 5:1 media card reader. Entertainment features abound with optional ATI Mobility Radeon^™ HD3410 discrete graphics and DVD film playback via the external drive. Integrated WiFi and optional WWAN, plus the HP Webcam, make face-to-face chat from anywhere easy. The new dv2 series: Yes, you can have it all!

 

⁽¹⁾ Internet access required and sold separately.

Product Description

EXQUISITELY THIN: Refining the dv series to achieve optimal mobility, the new dv2 wears a magnesium-aluminum alloy case, an LED display and a 92% of full-size keyboard. It offers optional WWAN, runs on breakthrough energy-efficient AMD processors and removes the internal optical drive. The elegant modern lines and metalized finishes that define the dv series remain but with a profile less than 1" thin and starting weight of just 3.81lbs. Lustrous magnesium-aluminum alloy casing on the outside is complemented by color-matched HP Imprint finish on the inside in Moonlight white. External optical drives are available in Espresso black. HP¿s mobile products have won coveted International Red Dot, iF and CES Innovation design awards and been recognized by other leading design institutions. SURPRISINGLY ENTERTAINING: Carry on your favorite entertainment with the standard, large-capacity hard drive. Burn CDs and watch DVD films with the external optical drive. Providing more choices than ever, HP MediaSmart enables access to DVDs, videos, photos, music, and Internet TV at the touch of a button. Get access to watch the best video clips from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and MTV. Built-in demos show you how to add music to your slide shows or videos with drag-and-drop functionality ¿ and much more. An HDMI port enables you to watch films on an HD TV. Muvee Reveal makes creating films complete with effects and transitions a snap! SRS Premium Sound pours through Altec Lansing speakers delivering great audio. What's in the box: dv2-2110us laptop, 65W AC Adapter, 6-Cell Lithium-Ion battery, Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009 with 60 days complimentary live update, Microsoft Works, HP MediaSmart. Muvee Reveal, Cyberlink DVD Suite, Adobe Acrobat Reader and HP Games Powered by Wild Tangent.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great for the price, October 9, 2009

By 

Mister_DNA (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP Pavilion DV2-1110US 12.1-Inch Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)

Just one week after I buy this notebook from Amazon, the price falls by $27 and Amazon refuses to match the price drop. Quite disappointing in that regard. I ordered this on a Wed, Amazon shipped on Sunday and it arrived on Tuesday with free shipping. So that was good.

On to the notebook. First the pros:

Build quality is good and it feels expensive compared to most sub $500 note/netbooks.

Large keys on the keyboard while not as spacious as a regular keyboard works better than than those from Acer that use the chicklet size keys. One of the reasons why I chose this over the Acer Timeline series.

Screen is bright and sharp.

Small compact and lightweight since it doesn't have a built-in DVD drive (uses an external drive). Design looks clean and modern with none of that clunky look from the low end Lenovos or Toshibas.

Uses Vista 64 bit edition

Has HDMI port to plug into HDTVs

Dedicated graphics processor and memory.

Now the cons:

Battery life is average 2-3 hours

Uses single core AMD Athlon Neo processor which is underpowered for Vista. There're occasional lags when running basic things like browsers, Word, etc. The CPU is maxed out at 100% most times.

The initial applications and drivers installed seem to make the notebook run really slow. I tried to watch videos on Hulu.com and they were jerky and slow. After installing updated video drivers and IE8 and Firefox, it worked better. Strange for a notebook professing to be an "Entertainment" notebook to be that bad at video until the drivers were updated. Despite the dedicated graphics processor and memory, video performance is just average and can a bit slow at times.

Bloatware. There are several but not too bad.

HP MediaSmart: this is pretty useless since the notebook already has Windows Media Center. The software itself is nothing great and eats up additional memory and CPU cycles.

Bottom line: This notebook is just barely able to run Vista 64 since the CPU is underpowered. It's a compromise between a full blown notebook and netbook since it has a decent size hard drive and screen. To make it perform better, you'll have to remove all the bloatware and unnecessary applications, and download the latest software updates and drivers. I'll be upgrading to Win 7 when it arrives so hopefully, that'll improve the performance further. Also probably look into upgrading the 2gb ram to 4gb.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More than a netbook, November 27, 2009

By 

Juan Antonio Herrera "Toño" (Arequipa, PERU. South America.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP Pavilion DV2-1110US 12.1-Inch Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)

This device is a better option for those who are thinking to buy a netbook
as I wanted. There are some reasons I didn't bought a netbook:

- Almost all have 160 GB HD
- It has only 1gb ram, instead some that have 2gb
- Some have reduced keyboard
- They don't have dedicated video card

This HP-Dv2 has more good things like:

- It's also thin as netbooks
- It's only 2 inches bigger than netbooks
- It comes with an exteral usb dvd drive
- Good processor similar to the intel atom in netbooks
- More space 250GB HD
- Dedicated video card
- 2GB ram
- The price doesnt have a big difference comparing with netbooks cause
the aditional things and performance are compensated in the aditional
money. The external DVD drive is original HP, if it would be sold it
could cost like U$100.

Well those who are thinking in buying a netbook I recomend to you this DV2
the model is very nice and interesting.

Here you have a review of this product:

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Step up from netbook but not a full laptop, December 2, 2009

By 

Stephanie N. Baker "Binston" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion DV2-1110US 12.1-Inch Entertainment Laptop (Personal Computers)

Straight to the point - This little guy is great for the price. It runs great and I see no problems in Vista. HP's bloatware is a seperate issue.

Things it can do better than a netbook:

1. Play games to an extent (slightly older games or newer ones with lower settings). Left 4 Dead ran fine on medium settings.
2. You can watch 720p HD video thanks to the discreet video! I used Media Player Classic with the CoreAVC h.264 codec. HDMI output to my HDTV played flawlessly.
The screen's native resolution negates 1080p, but even with CoreAVC 1080p is barely watchable.
3. Hard drive is larger so it holds more.

Things it can't do as well as a laptop:

1. Single core cpu doesnt to multitasking well. It was a little slow loading vlcplayer and IE at the same time.
2. Flash video on the web can stutter if it's high def. I blame Adobe for this. Flash is poorly coded. Why can this computer run 720p video with a good codec yet stumble on streaming flash video?! Adobe is working on hardware acceleration but it looks platform specific. Seems shady that I can play a 4gb video file flawlessly yet web video that streams at 150kbps stutters. Shame on you Adobe.
3. Edit photos or video. Photoshop loads and runs fine but can't handle large files well. I used a 150MB PSD file and it took forever to run some filters.
4. 1080p video basically requires at LEAST dual core.

Another downer - BLOATWARE. Come on HP, things are ridiculous. I had to uninstall probably 15 different apps/trials and used msconfig to trim the startup to get decent boot times. This should be resolved with the free upgrade to Windows 7 I'm due. Clean OS load = happy computer!

Ratings - 10/10 system

1. Hardware config 8/10 ( dual core proc probably would up the price $50 and GREATLY increase performance but also chip away battery life.)
2. Performance 8/10 (720p video is fine, flash stumbles, gaming performance is on par with hardware config)
3. Software config 5/10 (HP loaded bloatware, needed driver updates for best performance)

In short, this computer is a great step up from a netbook because I can watch movies on the plane, and play some games for entertainment. The battery life is about 3.5 hrs which is better than what I would get with a laptop that CAN edit video. I estimate I can get 4-4.5 hrs out of the battery if I play movies from a thumb drive (no spinning platters = power savings!) and dim the screen. I actually like the external optical drive cause it saves battery life! It does what I got it for. Plays 720p video, surfs the web, basic gaming. A netbook with similar performance is $700 at the moment, and this HP has a larger screen!

Can't wait to load Windows 7 on it. Since I'm an IT guy, I am used to tweaking units to get the best performance. I know having a straight load of Windows 7 will be best, loading only the HP drivers and performance might even go up a little more above its current "cleaned out" state. A standard user may not be comfortable doing what it takes to get an OEM computer performing as it should, but that's what it takes. That's why HP, Dell, Gateway, etc can sell computers so cheap, the money they get for including bloatware covers some of YOUR costs.