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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. We were also given an upgraded 500GB hard drive which will set you back another $30. RAM was also upgraded from 2GB to 4GB, but at the time of this writing that upgrade is free, bringing our unit’s as-configured price to a modest $454.99.
That may seem like a lot for a netbook, but this one straddles the line between the netbook and ultraportable categories. However you choose to define it, the little HP’s portability and battery like Hp NB800AA battery, Hp Pavilion dv2z battery, Hp WY165AA battery, Hp 616026-351 battery, Hp NBP6A167 battery, Hp VG586AA battery, Hp 580686-001 battery, Hp Pavilion dm3 battery, Hp Pavilion dm3t battery, HP Mini 311 Battery, HP Pavilion dm1 Battery, HP VP502AA Battery life will need to excel in order to justify a price that rivals the low end of the desktop replacement market.
HP’s dm1z is not the prefect netbook. It’s also not the perfect budget ultraportable. But it’s closer to perfection, when approached from either perspective, than any laptop on the market today.
As a netbook, it’s expensive. But if you don’t select any of the options besides the AMD E-450 processor you’ll be receiving a perfectly functional Windows computer for $424.99 that, unlike its smaller competition, offers a comfortable keyboard and touchpad as well as a usable display. In other words, the HP dm1z is what netbooks originally claimed to be but never were – an affordable and enjoyable Windows PC in a portable package.
As a budget ultraportable, the HP dm1z suffers from poor processor performance. Yet it’s also much less expensive and much more portable than the beefier Intel-powered Ultraportables that will so easily thrash the dm1z in SiSoft Sandra or 7-Zip. In addition, this laptop matches or nearly matches more expensive competitors in graphics performance, available RAM and hard drive capacity.
The only alternative I can recommend is the aging ASUS Eee PC 1215N, which is slightly bigger (it has a 12.1” display) and therefor slightly more comfortable for larger folks like myself. If you’re of more typical size, however, the dm1z can’t be beat.
Highs:
Attractive design
Large keyboard and touchpad
Sharp display with decent black levels
Good audio quality
Long battery life
Admirable graphics performance
Lows:
Annoying Norton antivirus
Poor processor performance
Still too small for some users