I could play Torchlight with all its settings cranked up, and Left 4 Dead 2 ran amazingly well.
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The integrated Radeon HD 6310M graphics performs quite well, offering full DirectX 11 compatibility and outperforming the integrated graphics on Intel’s Atom CPUs by a factor of 3 or more. That figure doesn’t reflect idle time, either: Our test alternates between playing full-screen video and performing simulated typing to drain a laptop’s battery. Though AMD’s past processors have had problems with battery life, the Pavilion dm1z ran for a creditable 6 hours, 40 minutes in our battery rundown test.
Most Atom-based netbooks (including the HP MIni 5103, which we reviewed last fall) can’t do better than WorldBench 6 score of 35 to 40. The dm1z earned a mark of 55 on our WorldBench 6 tests. Still, if HP’s marketing department insists that this isn’t a netbook, we won’t insist that it is. If we had evaluated the system as a netbook, its favorable performance against other netbooks would have boosted its performance score to 84 and its overall score to 4 stars. And this score knocks the system’s overall score down to 3 stars. As a result, the final performance score (a weighted combination of all our benchmarks and the system’s battery life) is a measly 59. Judged in the ultraportable category, however, it looks puny, as more-expensive laptops equipped with Intel’s ultra-low-voltage CPUs run circles around it. Okay…but it blows the doors off virtually every other netbook we’ve reviewed, and its price is in the same ballpark as (and in some instances lower than) those of many premium netbooks. HP clearly defines the Pavilion dm1 as an ultraportable laptop, and company reps have reiterated to me several times that it is not to be considered part of its netbook lineup, whose models carry the brand HP Mini. At a very reasonable starting price of $450, this 11.6-inch laptop straddles the line between budget ultraportable laptop and netbook.
It’s based on the highest-performing member of the new Brazos platform from AMD, the E-350 CPU. We’ve been hearing about AMD’s new Fusion line of processors for what seems like ages, so I dove eagerly into testing the first Fusion-powered laptop to cross my doorstep–the HP Pavilion dm1z (frequently called the “dm1”).
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