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HP Pavilion dv6900 Series

HP Pavilion dv6910usProcessor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60, Intel Core 2 Duo T5750
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100, NVIDIA GeForce 7150M
Display: 15.40 inch
Weight: 2.7kg, 2.8kg, 3.2kg
Price: 600, 800 euro
Average Score: 67.67% - average
Average of 3 scores (from 3 reviews)
performance: 45%, mobility: 75%

 

HP Pavilion dv6915nr

Specifications

HP Pavilion dv6915nrNotebook: HP Pavilion dv6915nr
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: HP homepage
 Pavilion dv6900 (Series)

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Average Score: 63% - average

Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

 

Reviews

63% HP Pavilion dv6915nr
Source: CNet English Archive.org version
The well-designed HP Pavilion dv6915nr incorporates most of the features you'll need for school, but other 15.4-inch laptops offer better performance for the same price.
6.3 von 10, Mobilität gut, Leistung mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/03/2008
Rating: Total score: 63% performance: 50% mobility: 80%

 

HP Pavilion dv6985se

Specifications

HP Pavilion dv6985seNotebook: HP Pavilion dv6985se
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750
Graphics Adapter: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 3.2kg
Price: 800 euro
Links: HP homepage
 Pavilion dv6900 (Series)

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Average Score: 80% - good

Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

 

Reviews

80% HP Pavilion dv6985se
Source: CNet English Archive.org version
The HP Pavilion dv6985se is a well-stocked mainstream machine with a long-living (though heavy) 12-cell battery. We recommend it, provided you like the unique copper-colored case and are willing to schlep around 6.6 pounds of laptop.
8 von 10, Mobilität zufriedenstellend
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% mobility: 70%

 

HP Pavilion dv6910us

Specifications

HP Pavilion dv6910usNotebook: HP Pavilion dv6910us
Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M
Display: 15.40 inch, 16:10, 1280 x 800 pixels
Weight: 2.8kg
Price: 600 euro
Links: HP homepage
 Pavilion dv6900 (Series)

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Average Score: 60% - poor

Average of 1 scores (from 1 reviews)

 

Reviews

60% HP Pavilion dv6910us 15.4-inch Budget Laptop PC
Source: Comp Reviews English Archive.org version
HP's Pavilion dv6910us may have been cutting edge previously, but the system is really showing its age. To keep costs down, HP made a number of compromises on the laptop including using a less expensive and lower performance AMD processor and using a higher capacity but slower hard drive. This gives the dv6910us much lower performance than competiting budget laptop PCs. On the plus side, HP does include Bluetooth and three gigabytes of memory.
3 von 5, Leistung schlecht
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 10/06/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 40%

 

Comment

HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.

In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.


These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

NVIDIA GeForce 7150M: This is an integrated (shared memory) graphic card for laptops with AMD processors (socket S1), inserted upon nForce 630M. The difference to 7000M is that 7150M offers HD-video decoding for MPEG2, H.264 in 720p.

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.


AMD Turion 64 X2: AMD Turion 64 X2 is intended to be positioned against the Intel Core Duo was presented in 17. May 2006. The current consumption is not higher than with Centrino-Duo-notebooks (TL-45 with ATI Xpress and Mobility Radeon X300). This means, that approximative the same battery runtime and fan functions can be expected (with this chipset). However, the performance was 20% below the T2300 (1.66 GHz) due to the lower L2 Cache (Core Duo has 2048 Kbyte shared L2 Cache). Nevertheless, the performance is sufficient.

TL-60: First in 90nm, later in 65nm produced dual-core processor based on the K8 core. Compareable performance to a 1.8 GHz Core Duo CPU with 1MB Level 2 Cache (Celeron Dual Core e.g.).

Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).

The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.

T5750:

Entry level dual core processor based on the Merom core without Virtualization support and a low maximum temperature.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.


» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.


2.7 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.

3.2 kg:

A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.


67.67%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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HP Pavilion dv6900 Serie
HP Pavilion dv6900 Serie
Stefan Hinum, 2008-08-22 (Update: 2012-05-26)