HP Pavilion dv3z

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Average User Rating

3.5 stars out of 4 user reviews

Rating Breakdown

  • 5 star: 2
  • 4 star: 1
  • 3 star: 0
  • 2 star: 1
  • 1 star: 0

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4.5 stars

"Awesome small Notebook" By azanderj

Pros: It's Light weight, attractive and performs well not to mention the low price. Holds up to 8gig's of ram.

Cons: Temperature, it run rather warm in vista with aero. The cpu (mine is a zm-82) runs warm any ways but I wonder what it's doing to all the other components.

Summary: I run Linux Mint 6 on mine and it's amazing with compiz. I have had no problems and am very happy with my DV3z.

2.0 stars

"For an "Entertainment" laptop, unimpressive!!" By compgeek37

Pros: inexpensive, nice styling

Cons: My unit had very poor battery life, lasting just over two hours simply browsing the web, the AMD processor is slow, the cooling fan is quite loud, often ramping up even louder when multitasking, and the speakers are on the bottom of the unit!

Summary: I cannot recommend the HP dv3z! I was very disappointed in the overall performance. I had planned to use this as an all around business laptop but found it to be just too slow, the fan noise to be quite disconcerting, and the speakers to be of poor sound quality, ... Expand full review

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