The HP Pavilion DV2 was the first laptop to adopt the AMD Neo platform, which provides significantly better CPU and graphics performance than you’ll get from an Intel Atom powered netbook. Unfortunately, with great power comes not-so-great battery life, and the DV2 was only able to get around 2.5 hours per charge. Now HP is rolling out the successor to…

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HP is now taking orders for its new Mini 110 netbook and updated Pavilion dv2 laptop. The company also appears to have pulled the HP Mini 1000 from its web store, with the exception of the $699.99 HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition. The Mini 110 comes with either Linux or Windows XP, and has a starting price of $279.99…

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The HP Pavilion dv2 is stuck somewhere between a netbook and a full featured notebook. It’s got a 12 inch screen and a low power AMD Neo processor. But it also has a high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display, up to 500GB of hard disk space, optional Blu-Ray, and an ATI graphics card. Unfortunately, with a starting price of…

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HP is bringing out two new CPU upgrade options for its Pavilion dv2 laptop. The dv2 has a 12 inch display and weighs less than 4 pounds, making it a bit bigger and heavier than most netbooks. But the AMD Neo processor and ATI Radeon graphics give it significantly better performance when it comes to handling video games and watching…

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The folks at Laptop Magazine have followed up yesterday’s first impressions post on the HP dv2 with a detailed review. The verdict? It’s definitely bigger, more powerful, and more expensive than the typical netbook. But that extra power takes… well, extra power. And the standard battery dies after about 2.5 hours of use. Still, if you find the typical netbook’s…

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HP has begun taking orders for the HP Pavilion dv2. The notebook is quite clearly not a netbook. But with a 12 inch screen and a starting weight of 3.8 pounds, it’s designed to appeal to many of the people who were looking at netbooks for their portability, but wanted a bit more power. This computer is the first to…

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HP has started taking reservations for the upcoming Pavilion dv2 series laptop. Notice I said reservations and not pre-orders. That’s because HP has yet to unveil the actual price or exact specifications of these new notebooks. But here’s what we do know: They’ll have 12.1 inch displays, weigh less than 4 pounds, and feature the new AMD Neo processor which…

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As promised, here are a few photos of the HP Pavilion DV2 line of notebooks from CES Unveiled last night. The DV2 series machines are some of the first laptops using the the AMD Yukon platform with the new AMD Neo processor.  They’re larger than netbooks, with 12 inch displays. And they cost more, with prices starting around $699. But…

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