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Old 12-05-2009, 06:46 AM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by randalllewis View Post
Jason, you've used a lot more laptops than I ever have so, while I was kidding about moving your hand (note the emoticon), I respect your expertise about design of the product.
No worries, I saw the emoticon, but I thought I'd respond seriously because I felt it was a fairly critical flaw in the dv2.

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Originally Posted by randalllewis View Post
That the dv2 was so short lived means there had to be some issue like the vent location and other stuff that made HP want to quickly move on to the dm series.
I do have to wonder about the dv2 getting killed off so quickly...it's rather curious!

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Originally Posted by randalllewis View Post
As for performance, my dv2 does not have the same CPU as the dm3. While both are AMD Neo and both are 1.6 Ghz, the dv2 I have has a single core Neo while the lowest cost dm3 is a dual core model. Certainly, that will make some difference in performance?
Ah, right, sorry - I was thinking of the dv2 that HP sent it...it has the dual-core CPU, so it's the same as the dm3. But you're quite right, the extra core would make quite a difference in many scenarios. You should run the FutureMark benchmark on your dv2 and compare the results to the dv2 in my video to see the performance difference.
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