Great product!!!

I have scrumbled my head again and again over the acquisiton of a netbook over the last year, but they all seem to miss a lot of fun being unable to handle HD video and basic gaming.

This package is a well-thought solution and I guess it will answer a lot of prayers. It sure covers my wish for an ultraportable media player and a notebook in one!

Pricewise, I have to nag. In the US the unit comes better equiped (memory, battery, HDD) at a lower price than Europe…

Availability is another thing. The unit has been announced in April and suppliers still have no clue about it. Even HP Europe will ship the unit in 4 weeks!!!

Other than that I am eager to get hold of my Dv2 asap!

Keep up the good work guys, thanx for listening!

Great notebook. Been watching it since the announcement and been doing some evangelizing in my circles. Is this platform an exclusive to HP? I would like to see what the other manufacturers can come up with.

@Robert Hallock.

Robert, the unit next to the Blu-Ray case is not the DV2, rather it is the Blu-Ray add-on unit for the DV2.

Franzius

With that said, notebookreviews.com ran some 3DMark scores versus netbooks and showed the dv2 scoring over 10X, yes 10X the closest all-Intel Atom+Intel graphics netbook solution.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4963&review=hp+pavilion+dv2

Ian McNaughton will be posting more info on games in his dv2 blog this week.

First and foremost, I was surprised with the dimensions of the DV2. When I first saw the product making the rumor mill last winter, all the Mr. Blurrycam images contained the notebook by itself which gave no sense of perspective. I’m pleased to see how small this notebook really is now that it’s been placed side-by-side with a DVD case.

I am also impressed with the hardware. I’m a geek, and I know performance when I see it, and the dv2 clearly has it. 1080p, integrated WWAN, L4D-capable video, and a solid chip (Sooo… What can you tell me about Conesus?): This smells like a recipe for success.

Now my sticking point. I earnestly think that the $750 price is too high. It’s probably too much to ask for $500, but even $600 would sit much better with me. I understand there are limitations given the increasing cost of decreasing size, but can’t a nerd dream?

Good show, AMD.

While I’m a network and security admin during the day, I’m a PC gamer in the evening. Hearing that this ultrathin has the ability to play some games, has a ton of features along with a proven battery life AND costs less than 1K really peaks my interest.

This sounds like the portable I have been looking for!

To me, a netbook is a year to year replacement platform with its underpowered guts, it gets you from A to B now, but a year from now, you likely to be left wanting more. The netbooks lack of multimedia muscle has kept me from taking the leap with everyone else. The DV2 looks like my answer.

To me, visual content matters, and this platform looks like it is geared to generate much more of it than any netbook can. That being said, its also a platform that looks geared to last a couple of years longer, really making it easy to justify the extra couple hundred dollars when compared to an underpowered netbook that your just going to want to replace this time next year.

I can’t wait to get my hands on the dv2. It looks like everything I want in an ultraportable.