Hands-on with Affordable, Brushed Aluminum HP Pavilion dm3
September 15th, 2009 by Jeffrey L. Wilson 
Today’s HP notebook onslaught continues. The company has announced the successor to the HP Pavilion dv2, the HP Pavilion dm3, a aluminum-clad 13-inch notebook that allows buyers to select either AMD or Intel as their engine of choice for a reasonable price.
Both models weigh 4.2 pounds and mesure from 0.9 inches to 1.2 inches thick. But the AMD model starts at $549 and features the AMD Neo platform, switchable graphics, and up to 6 hours of endurance when running the integrated GPU; the Intel version starts at $649, and comes with a choice of either integrated or discrete graphics, which are rated at 10 hours of battery life and 6 hours, respectively.
Regardless of which solution you select to power the HP Pavilion dm3, you’ll be treated to a machine with a 13.3-inch (1,366 x 768) display, 64-bit Windows 7 ($77.54) operating system, 4GB of RAM, brushed-metal “Modern Argento” finish on the lid on palmrest, and eye-catching metal accents along the sides. Check out our image gallery and video for to get our first impressions of this new system.
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December 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Those “eye-catching metal accents along the sides” are actually plastic phony-chrome. After two weeks mine is rubbing off to reveal a less than eye-catching black plastic material. In all however it is a fine machine at a very good price!