HP DM1

Well spotted. I'm very tempted :D

Strangely, ***** says the 4027sa has a battery life of 8.5 hours, but for the 4020sa 6 hours. From what's been posted before (in part by me, I must confess) these machines are indentical in all but hard drive size.

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Arthur Dent said:
Well spotted. I'm very tempted :D

Strangely, PC World says the 4027sa has a battery life of 8.5 hours, but for the 4020sa 6 hours. From what's been posted before (in part by me, I must confess) these machines are indentical in all but hard drive size.
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I think the **** spec on battery life is wrong - it's an identical machine except the HDD size. I got the 4020sa a few weeks ago and battery life on power saver mode is around 8 hours on mine. Here's the HP specs on the machine: http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/laptops/product-detail.html?oid=5189614
 
for £299 plus some discount vouchers (from certain websites) i would definatley be buying the AMD version.

i can not believe how good this little cpu is a gaming on med- high settings even x2 or x4 AA settings!!

with the new catalyst drivers you can full throttle the cpu and gpu so that it stops with the turbo boost and constantley runs at max performance. IMO it makes quite a difference

has anyone else tried this under the power tab in the AMD Vision control centre?
 
I do have a 13" Dell Vostro i7 though ....

But tempted to have a smaller laptop as a second one.
 
I have a 13" Sony Vaio but so glad I bought my 4027ea, the Vaio rarely gets used (I only get 1.5hrs out of that battery and it half burns my legs!)
 
That is a great price with cash back offer. I bought mine at £241 after cash back, more than happy. Hopefully HP store will ship it next week, then I will look for a fast SSD to put in it.
 
Just bought one of the OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB drives that are on special offer today with free postage, that will do very nicely in my DM1. £63.98 inc free post, cracking good price.
 
I had the HP Mini 311c. Great little netbook but the Atom 1.6ghz cpu was rubbish. It got very frustrating trying to multitask (firefox, word, excelm outlook, mp3 player and sometime VLC). How does this dm1-4004sa hold up at multi tasking?

Also does the touchpad support gestures?
 
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Installed AMD System Monitor software for fusion APU processors (you'll need to search for it on the AMD website) and it gives a very useful live view of CPU usage (both cores shown separately). As I've installed Win 7 64 bit, it looks like there may be some significant benefit to increasing the RAM to 8GB as there's very little spare/'free' (only 39 MB in my case) of the 4GB once the system 'hardware', running programmes 'in use' and 'standby' (presumably for shared graphics) have had their share.

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With regards whether the DM1-40xx notebooks are better at multitasking than netbooks, the answer is of course they are. Whilst the E-450 dual core (so 2 x 1.65 GHz) processor is not as strong as the latest Core i3 processors, it's more than a match for the single core Atom processors in netbooks (I know some newer netbooks come with the new dual core Atom processor which may be more equal). But what gives the AMD E-450 setup a significant boost is the built in Radeon HD 6320 graphics. In simple terms, my DM1-4027sa is quicker at just about everything when compared to my more traditional Lenovo 2000 N200 laptop (15.6" display size) that has a Centrino T5450 (dual core 1.66 GHz) processor, nVidia Geoforce Go 7300 GPU (256 MB dedicated RAM), 3 GB of system RAM and running Win 7 32 bit. Thus notebooks with the AMD E-450 setup (not just the HP DM1) are notebooks/laptops in their own right and it's probably inappropriate to compare them to Atom powered netbooks. Just because the HP DM1 (and Samsung/Lenovo equivalents) has a small screen and form factor it seems it's automatically being compared to netbooks - there are bigger notebooks/laptops with the same E-450 setup and they are not being compared to netbooks.

Another good comparison is that my DM1 will run the Crysis game, whereas my Lenovo laptop mentioned above couldn't.

I hope all of the above helps if anyone is looking to buy an AMD E-450 powered HP DM1 (or Lenovo s200/x121e and Samsung equivalents).
 
Interesting, may just upgrade the memory then. How many slots does this machine have, I presume four, with two in use from the ram it ships with?

Though I'd then need to switch to 64bit Win 7! I have an OEM copy of 64bit Win 7, could I use this and the license key with the laptop? Where do I find that? Or can I contact HP for a 64bit disc?
 
Gideon Lorr said:
Though I'd then need to switch to 64bit Win 7! I have an OEM copy of 64bit Win 7, could I use this and the license key with the laptop? Where do I find that? Or can I contact HP for a 64bit disc?
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I needed to do exactly what you mention above. If you have a look back through some earlier posts on this thread (pages 3-4 I think) the details are there. Your OEM disc should work and the product code on the laptop (under the battery) will work when you need to register windows with Microsoft. Just make sure you download all of the drivers from the HP website before you install the 64 bit version (the wifi doesn't work until you install the right driver). Be prepared for a lot of Windows 7 updates too (if you have SP1 installation file already that will help).
 
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As I've installed Win 7 64 bit, it looks like there may be some significant benefit to increasing the RAM to 8GB as there's very little spare/'free' (only 39 MB in my case) of the 4GB once the system 'hardware', running programmes 'in use' and 'standby' (presumably for shared graphics) have had their share.
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This is because w7 is a half decent OS and its caching data you might use based on what its learnt about your usage.

So you will rarely have free RAM but the standby (cached) RAM is free to use if something needs it.

4Gb will be fine for a lot of peoples needs.
 
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