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HP Pavilion dm1z Reviews

DigitalTrends

12/2011

9.5/10

HP Pavilion dm1z Review

Review: Combining the best of both a laptop and Windows PC, the HP dm1z is a top caliber netbook that offers everything you'd expect from a desktop in a portable, sleek, and relatively affordable package.Netbooks, having enjoyed so much excitement during their early days, have now retreated for the most part from the public eye. Part of the reason is likely the rise in tablets, and now Ultrabooks, but netbooks themselves are also partially responsible. There simply has not been much movement in the market. Intel’s Atom, the most popular processor, has received only minor revisions. Excitement is lacking because there’s not a lot to be excited about.There are, however, a few products that have managed to separate themselves from the masses. One of these is HP’s dm1z, an AMD powered netbook/ultraportable with an 11.6” display. Nothing in the PC hardware world stays the same for long, however. To make sure this laptop keeps pace, HP recently updated the dm1z with AMD’s newest E-Series processors, the E-300 and E-450. In addition, Beats Audio has been stuffed inside the tiny chassis.While the base HP dm1z with an AMD E-300 processor is $399.99, our review unit’s AMD E-450 is a $25 upgrade.

MaximumPC

06/2011

9.0/10

HP Pavilion dm1z Review

We’re not living so close to the cutting edge here at Maximum PC that we can’t see the utility of a no-frills, budget portable that’s capable of performing all the common day-to-day computing tasks. Whether it serves as a secondary machine for work on-the-go or as a primary PC for a school-age kid, we get it. It’s the same need that netbooks were meant to fulfill, if only they hadn’t fallen short of the mark. What netbooks taught us is that today’s common computing tasks—which include things like gaming and high-def video playback—require more power than an Atom processor and integrated graphics can muster. AMD’s Fusion offers a more viable option, as evidenced by HP’s Pavilion dm1z—an 11.6-inch portable that starts at $450. The notebook’s E-350 chip comprises a 1.6GHz dual-core processor and a Radeon HD DX11-capable graphics part on the same die. Compared to the 1.6GHz N270 Atom in our standard zero-point netbook (a Lenovo IdeaPad S12)—well, there is no comparison, only horrific carnage. The N270 gets slaughtered by more than 50 percent in content-creation chores and three-digit margins too embarrassing to repeat in our gaming tests. Instead, we measured the Pavilion dm1z against the very best Atom-based netbook we’ve tested to date, the Asus 1215N (reviewed December 2010).

HotHardware

04/2011

HP Pavilion dm1z Fusion Ultralight Notebook Review

At this point, there's no shame in saying it: the floodgates have opened up for AMD's Fusion. What began as a trickle -- as AMD finally introduced a shipping version of the long-awaited Fusion platform -- has turned into a steady stream, and we're definitely excited to see APUs, as AMD calls the product, finally making an impact. AMD had played up the idea of an Accelerated Processing Unit for years, and now, it's clearly a reality. Lenovo's ThinkPad X120e, which we reviewed a few months ago, instantly became one of our favorite ultraportables, and now HP has what appears to be a rival machine, of sorts. The Pavilion dm1z is an 11.6" machine, that is a touch larger than the myriad 10" netbooks already on the market, and honestly, we're struggling with what to classify this machine as. Is is a netbook? Is it an ultraportable? In reality, it's probably a hybrid of the two. You're getting the portability and longevity of a netbook, but the power and price of a nicer ultraportable. Is this a class of machine that has a future? It's tough to tell at this point, but you could argue this class of machine wouldn't even exist without Fusion.

PCWorld

01/2011

6.0/10

HP Pavilion dm1z

We've been hearing about AMD's new Fusion line of processors for what seems like ages, so it's with great interest that I dove into the testing of the first Fusion-powered laptop to cross my doorstep, the HP Pavilion dm1z (frequently called the "dm1"). It's based on the highest-performing member of the new Brazos platform from AMD, the E-350 CPU. At a very reasonable starting price of $450, this 11.6-inch laptop straddles the line between a budget ultraportable laptop and a netbook, and offers a lot of value. HP clearly defines the Pavilion dm1 as an ultraportable laptop, and has re-iterated to me several times that it is not to be considered part of its netbook lineup, which carry the brand HP Mini. This is a shame, because it blows the doors off all the other netbooks we've reviewed, and is priced similarly - even lower - than many premium netbooks. Judged in the ultraportable category, as it is, more expensive laptops based on Intel's ultra-low voltage CPUs run circles around the AMD E-350. As a result, the final performance score (a weighted combination of all our benchmarks and the system's battery life) is a measly 59. Unfortunately, this score impacts the system's overall score, knocking it down to three stars.

PCMAG

01/2011

9.0/10

HP Pavilion dm1z

Never mind all the talk about netbooks taking a back seat to tablets - or at least that's what HP will tell you. Despite all the tablets that were launched at CES 2011, HP is squarely focused on laptops. The HP Pavilion dm1z ($449 direct) is the most exciting of the bunch, an 11-inch netbook that's built around AMD's Fusion APU (processor and discrete graphics on the same die). What's different about this crop of AMD processors versus all the previous ones is that you actually have the great battery life to go along with all that speed. The dm1z scored over 7 hours in our battery tests, and beat its Intel Atom counterparts in every speed test. For this, the dm1z nabs the Editors' Choice in the netbook category. While most PC manufactures apply decorative touches to the lid only, the dm1z applies its plastic imprinting technology on both the top and bottom of the laptop. The plastic resin has certain characteristics of metal, like its texture and solid construction, but doesn't feel as cheap as glossy plastic. Right now, the only color option is black, but knowing HP, there will be others to choose from in the near future.

Prices

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HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 320GB HD; 4GB Memory	$399.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 320GB HD; 2GB Memory	$399.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 500GB HD; 4GB Memory	$429.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 320GB HD; 6GB Memory	$459.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z 11.6" AMD Dual-Core FUSION Processor E-350+AMD Radeon HD 6310M Discrete-Class Graphics, 3GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB 7200RPM Hard Drive	$469.88	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 640GB HD; 4GB Memory	$469.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 640GB HD; 2GB Memory	$469.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 500GB HD; 6GB Memory	$489.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 320GB HD; 8GB Memory	$519.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 640GB HD; 6GB Memory	$529.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 500GB HD; 8GB Memory	$549.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z 11.6" AMD Dual-Core Processor E-450+ AMD Radeon HD 6320M Discrete-Class Graphics 4GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive	$549.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 640GB HD; 8GB Memory	$589.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z 11.6" AMD Dual Cor E300 AMD Radeon HD 6310M 4GB DDR3 (1 Dimm) 250GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit	$600	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 160GB SSD; 2GB Memory	$719.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 160GB SSD; 4GB Memory	$719.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 160GB SSD; 6GB Memory	$779.99	See it
HP Pavilion dm1z Notebook PC with 160GB SSD; 8GB Memory	$839.99	See it