The HP Pavilion dv2 ran for 2 hours and 29 minutes in our video-playback battery-drain test, using the included six-cell battery. That's well short of what we'd expect from an ultra-portable 12-inch laptop clearly designed to be used on the road.
Multimedia multitasking test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Toshiba Portege R600
1313
Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle PC
5062
HP Pavilion dv2
5257
Samsung NC20
7218
Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Toshiba Portege R600
272
HP Pavilion dv2
377
Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle PC
881
Apple iTunes encoding test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Toshiba Portege R600
248
HP Pavilion dv2
367
Samsung NC20
589
HP Mini 2140
789
Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle PC
962
Video-playback battery-drain test (in minutes)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Toshiba Portege R600
308
HP Mini 2140
301
Samsung NC20
275
Sony Vaio P-series Lifestyle PC
188
HP Pavilion dv2
149
Conclusion
The HP Pavilion dv2 is a great-looking machine that aims to sit between netbooks and more expensive ultra-portables. With a Neo CPU, it's capable of outperforming most Atom- and Nano-based netbooks, but, for the price, you can also get a mainstream dual-core laptop that outperforms the dv2.
Additional editing by Charles Kloet
Android App 
RSS Feeds 
iPhone App 
Newsletters