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HP Pavilion dm1: The Mini 311 gets an upgrade

I had the HP Mini 311 for about a year before it was bought by a friend. I loved its design but wanted something better than what Atom can offer. If only HP could do a Core 2 Duo or Athlon Neo version. Turns out the HP Pavilion dm1 is the one.

HP Pavilion dm1 specs:
11.6” HD LED @ 1366×768 pixels
AMD Athlon II Neo Dual-Core K325 (1.3GHz, 2MB L2)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD4225 Graphics
3GB DDR3 800MHz (Max 5GB)
320GB SATA HDD 7200rpm
External Super Multi DVD+/-RW DL Drive
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
0.3MP webcam
Card Reader
1 x HDMI port
3 x USB ports
6-cell Li-Ion battery

Th unit weighs a bit heavy at 1.47kg and the 6-cell battery promises up to 5 hours on a single charge (though I doubt it can do 4 hours in real world situations).

The unit comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and MS Office Starter 2010. The HP Pavilion dm1 is not widely available locally but gray market prices puts it at Php38,000. Yeah, quite expensive but I remember getting my HP Mini 311 for Php31,000 before.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

17 Responses

  1. Avatar for Sylvain Racine Sylvain Racine says:

    This is a lemon.

    I am sending it back today.

    – Battery last no more than 3 hours.
    – The touch pad is very bad.
    – The fan is loud and always on.

    There is no way of liking this laptop. I would not even buy it for 100 USD. I paid it about 850 USD.

    I bought it because the retailer wrote as the main selling point that the battery last 9 hours. They’d better not cause me problem with the refund, because I’ll screw them.

  2. Avatar for robbie robbie says:

    saan nakakabili sir?

  3. Avatar for Vance Vance says:

    The price is not that worth it.. For one, the unit will not last 4 Hours on batt.. The HP Mini 311 only lasted for 3 hours since AMD processors use alot of power.. Secondly, for a 11 incher will you waste 40K for it? if it was a 13″ one, I might… for the same price you can buy a core i3/i5 laptop with powerful graphics card.

    Sayang talaga..

  4. Avatar for fafi fafi says:

    Way too overpriced, I would rather bought a CULV netbook than this one.

  5. Avatar for manong manong says:

    @yuga – a 8-hr battery life is an upgrade to a 4-hr battery life, sans the brand.

    touché?

  6. Avatar for nightcrawl nightcrawl says:

    @Bench

    tama 1799 dirhams lang yan dito. ang specs ay ito…

    Intel Celeron Dual Core SU2300 1.2GHz
    1MB level 2 cache
    3GB DDR-3 RAM
    320GB 5400rpm SATA HDD
    11.6″ diagonal HD LED BrightView widescreen display
    Intel graphics media accelerator 4500MHD, Up to 1309MB total available graphics memory
    Integrated web camera with microphone
    5-in-1 card reader
    Ports – 3x USB 2.0, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA port, 1x RJ45 Ethernet connector, 1x jack Headphone/Mic combo jack
    Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN
    802.11b/g WLAN
    Bluetooth
    6 cell Li-Ion battery
    Windows 7 Home Premium

  7. Avatar for jay jay jay jay says:

    Too expensive..

  8. Avatar for troy troy says:

    HP’s service sucks and the repair prices are incredibly expensive.

  9. Avatar for BatangasNetwork BatangasNetwork says:

    medyo mahal pa din – asus na lang ako

  10. Avatar for gregong gregong says:

    My, you really have to be careful on what you say on this blog since there is always someone who would correct you. My thoughts: I think this is a nice upgrade over a single core (processor) but the price is a bit prohibitive. I have had an ASUS 1000HE for more than a year and I plan to “upgrade” to a netbook that’s faster and better looking. Any suggestions Mr. Yuga?

  11. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    @manong – a dual-core CPU is an upgrade to a single-core CPU, sans the brand.

  12. Avatar for manong manong says:

    so amd is an upgrade to intel? be careful coz your loyal followers might agree with you and ditch intel…

    so i disagree that this replaces that model but another product line. intel atom is designed as a low-power solution for limited task that will be offered maybe in 3-5yrs time; and i’m sure you know the word “diversity”.

  13. Avatar for godofredo godofredo says:

    can you compare this MSI U250. seems like they have the same processor and similar specs. although the price tag makes the difference.

  14. Avatar for Teknisyan Teknisyan says:

    Yeah… looks like HP is refreshing their Netbook aka HP mini line. I also got the HP Mini 110 with an updated specs.:)

    http://www.teknisyan.net/2010/08/unboxing-hp-mini-110-3010ee.html

  15. Avatar for lawrence lawrence says:

    mahal parin! 1.3 ghz seems so low. na overclock ba to?

  16. Avatar for bench bench says:

    have this one for 4 months now..i can say it is really one of the great item that I been using…pero nabili ko lng sya dito sa UAE ng around 21k sa pera natin..

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