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HP Pavilion dm3 review

Verdict

Beautiful build combines with stunning good looks in a budget laptop of rare pedigree

Review Date: 1 Mar 2010

Reviewed By: Sasha Muller

Price when reviewed: £451 (£530 inc VAT)

Overall Rating

Features & Design
6 stars out of 6

Value for Money
5 stars out of 6

Performance
4 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

Pavilion dm3

4hr 37min

Full working day

The light-use test is the absolute longest you can expect the battery to last with careful power management.

Pavilion dm3

1hr 43min

Full working day

The intensive-use score is the battery life during very demanding, CPU and hard disk-intensive operations with power management turned off.

Pavilion dm3

0.70

3.2GHz Pentium D PC

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Pavilion dm3

15fps

Smoothly playable

Our 3D gaming benchmarks test gaming performance in Crysis, which remains one of the most challenging games available. Setting is 1,024 x 768 at low detail.

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HP PC

Hi Chris,
I don't know if you have made a purchase yet, but I thought you might like this article. Reasuring if you have purchased, encouraging if not.
Cheers
Brian

By Briantea on 4 Mar 2010

HP DM3 is worth considering

I purchased the DM3 because on paper it ticked all of the boxes. It has proved to be an astute purchase. It is slim, attractive, the keyboard is peerless and it is fast for web browsing HD video playback.

Before purchasing I was worried about the heat generated by the Athlon Neo x2 processor and the trackpad.

The bottom left of the base does heat up but it isn't uncomfortable. The trackpad is the main bugbear. You really have to play around with the settings to find the correct sensitivity. It supports gestures but the trackpad is too small to properly utilise them.

However, these small grievances in no way detract from a good deal. You smile from time to time when you think about what you get for such a small price.

The DM3 is a rare example of a fair deal for the consumer.

By dyagetme1 on 4 Mar 2010

Hp Support

But this Hp Pavilion dm3 has tremendous battery life and the bad is no optical drive,some config can be expensive and touchpad should be improved. For details visit http://www.iyogi.net/hp/

By miagale on 14 Jul 2010

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