Comments on: HP Pavilion dv2- Does it have game

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:05:24 +0000

Awesome, this review makes me pretty confident that it should run WoW(at least till Cataclysm) no problem. Thanks Ian.

By: لكزس

لكزس — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:28:14 +0000

ok guys i have this laptop…
after minutes of tweaking the game settings ive played games like mirrors edge, fallout3, sbk09, HAWX, FEAR2, street fighter4, the last remnant, wanted and it runs quite well…
but sadly im afraid that it will not run extreme gfx games like crysis, gta4, farcry2, bla bla bla…
btw, ive installed prototype and got a thumbs down..

By: Ian McNaughton

Ian McNaughton — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:35:33 +0000

The launch price was starting at $799

By: mark

mark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:41:13 +0000

how much was this laptop?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:48:35 +0000

pavel- how did you overclock? Obviously the bios is of no help, but I couldn’t get setfsb or amd overdrive or any other oc software to work. What software did you use?

By: pavel

pavel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:55:23 +0000

If you complain about the processor just over clock it to a safe 1.866 thats enough to do some intensive tasks.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:10:33 +0000

Yes, i love this little laptop. it is small and powerful. i used AMD for more than 10 yrs, and just love it!

By: Ian McNaughton

Ian McNaughton — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:14:23 +0000

@wpeltola – Thanks, I completely agree! The dv2 is a great ultra thin notebook! and priced right too!

By: wpeltola

wpeltola — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:11:33 +0000

The thing that blows me away is the price of this slim notebook. What a great time to upgrade! With prices and performance like this, you really don’t have to look any further…the dv2 has the best of both worlds. Take a look at those reviews

By: Surya Adi Nugraha S

Surya Adi Nugraha S — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:09:45 +0000

Hmm, it will be better if can use this machine for cloud@myhome. Amazingly, I can play this game in my iphone wirelessly just install the app in iphone. I hope AMD could do these in their future products.

By: Mantas

Mantas — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:54:53 +0000

It looks like a netbook, but a really powerful netbook.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:20:14 +0000

The dv2 is really cool! Small screen with good graphics, the only thing that put me off is the cpu only, since my friend told me that I do programming, I need more power. So I got myself an laptop with Athlon X2 and hd3200. Haven’t try out the L4D and HAWX, but I hope my lappie can play it too!

By: Cliff Forster

Cliff Forster — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:54:40 +0000

Modern hardware is wonderful. Sure, you could have a more complete experience on a desktop, or some ten pound gaming laptop, but considering its form factor, getting over 30 FPS consistent on these games is an achievement.

I love the video too, to me, video is the truest seeing is believing benchmark. People get so hung up on bar graphs and what the visual difference might be once running at 100+ FPS, but seeing video is where the real value lies in any real world benchmark, and I think benchmarking sites should take a cue from a few of the video benchmarks AMD has posted, the side by side comparisons, the real time footage, its the new real world standard if you ask me, bar graphs, charts, meh, give me video any day.

Nicely done.