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The latest HP Pavilion dm1 (dm1z) makes a good choice for people looking for an affordable, compact laptop with good overall performance.
If you’re trying to find a travel laptop with decent multimedia performance and good battery life that won’t take up much room in a carry-on bag then the latest HP Pavilion dm1 (dm1z) might be just what you need.
The new HP Pavilion dm1-4010us ($480) with battery like HP 751875-001 Battery, HP 751681-421 Battery, HP 751681-231 Battery, HP Pavilion 11-N000SNX Battery, HP Pavilion 11 X360 Battery, HP X360 310 G1 Battery, HP HSTNN-DB7B Battery, HP HSTNN-PB6Q Battery, HP HSTNN-Q97C Battery, HP P3G16AA Battery, HP RI06 Battery, HP ProBook 450 G3 Battery is a simple and straightforward update to the dm1 series laptops from early 2011. You get an 11-inch netbook with a traditional rounded clamshell design. The biggest design change here is that the new generation of dm1z laptops feature mostly black plastics with silver accents rather than mostly silver with black accents.
Build quality is on par with other HP Pavilion notebooks and HP mini netbooks … meaning slightly above average for a budget laptop. The plastics used in the chassis are durable and thick enough to prevent flex or cracking under pressure. The plastic screen lid provides adequate protection for the screen, but the middle of the lid does bend inward under firm pressure (be careful jamming this into overhead compartments on your next flight).
The lid features a plain matte black paint job which keeps the outward appearance clean and professional. Opening up the screen, the silver-painted hinges have enough tension to hold the screen in place, but the plastics surrounding the hinges “float” around the actual metal hinges themselves. This was probably done so that the hinges won’t sustain a sharp impact if the laptop is dropped with the screen in the open position. However, the flexing plastics around the hinges don’t inspire the same confidence in build quality as the rest of the laptop.
The bottom of the notebook has a clean look with no screws in sight. If you want to upgrade the RAM, replace the hard drive or the wireless card, all you have to do is remove the battery and push the battery release switch all the way to the left as you pull forward on the bottom of the notebook. The entire bottom half of the laptop comes off and you have access to two RAM slots, the hard drive, the wireless card and even the fan and heatsink.
Just like the earlier models in the dm1 series, the HP website claims that the new HP Pavilion dm1-4010us delivers “up to 9.5 hours of battery life” from the included 6-cell battery. It’s also worth mentioning that this version of the dm1 uses a slightly higher capacity 55Wh battery compared to the 51Wh battery in the dm1 from earlier this year.
In our tests with the screen brightness set to 70%, wireless active while refreshing a website on regular 60-second intervals, and Windows 7 set to the Balanced profile, the HP Pavilion dm1-4010us continued running for 6 hours and 47 minutes. I have little doubt that you can extend the battery life past the 7-hour mark if you lower the screen brightness and aren’t actively loading pages every 60 seconds. By comparison, much more expensive Ultrabooks like the ASUS Zenbook UX31E and Toshiba Portege Z835 actually deliver less battery life than this little laptop.
If you’re in the market for an 11-inch laptop that can fit on an airline tray table with room to spare, offers good battery life and delivers reasonably impressive performance, then the HP Pavilion dm1-4010us is the notebook for you.
The dual-core E-450 processor and Radeon graphics deliver excellent multimedia performance and modest gaming capabilities in a small package. The lack of USB 3.0 is the only strong negative and although we didn’t see much improvement from Beats Audio in the new dm1z compared to the Altec Lansing speakers in the old dm1z, I’m sure some fans of Dr. Dre will be happy to have it.
There are other notebooks on the market that offer better performance, better battery life, or are even thinner and lighter than the dm1, but you’ll have trouble finding those notebooks on sale for less than the price of the dm1. We found this model of the dm1 selling for as little at $465 and that’s a fair price for a solid ultraportable. Bottom line: HP continues to offer a very attractive netbook in the form of the Pavilion dm1 (dm1z).
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