The HP Pavilion DV2 is another ambiguously categorized portable. It costs way more than most netbooks (its list price is $659, but you can find it for less), and it performs better than a netbook, but with its 12-inch 1280-by-800-pixel display, it kind of looks like an oversize netbook.
Powering the DV2 are a 1.6GHz Athlon MV-40 processor and an ATI Radeon HD 3410 discrete graphics card, which pack a punch that the combo in most netbooks (a 1.6GHz Atom CPU and integrated graphics) simply can't match. Even with those components, the DV2 is still fairly svelte at 3.8 pounds.
This laptop comes with a 320GB hard drive and 4GB of memory, so you won't be caught short on either; but since it lacks an optical drive, you won't be able to watch any DVDs here.
Pros: Solid processor and graphics card compared with laptops of a similar size; HDMI-out
Cons:: Subpar battery life (3 hours)
