HP PAVILION DV6-6116TX

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vailable in espresso black the dv6 looks stylish and definitely has a premium feel to it. The lattice patterned lid keeps fingerprint away leaving just a backlit HP logo at the bottom. The built quality is very good, just as we have come to expect from this series.

                Connectivity is taken care of by four USB 2.0 ports, VGA, HMDI, two headphone out ports, microphone, LAN and a card reader. The stereo speakers are placed in the front and feature beast audio. Inside you get a full sized keyboard with chiclet keys making it quite comfortable to use even for extended typing sessions. The edges of the track pad are lit, lending it a cool look.

                For a mainstream multimedia laptop, it comes with a pretty decent kit. Powering the dv6 is an Intel core i3-2310m running at 2.1 GHz. We also have a single 4 GB stick of RAM allowing you to add another one. Storage has been taken care of by a 500 GB SATA drive running at 5400 rpm and AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 1 GB GDDRS memory. The 15.6 inch screen is LED backlit but with a resolution of 1366*768. The discrete graphics card also features switchable graphics, which automatically shuts down when performing regular tasks and only kicks in, once you start any graphical application. HP also bundles a ton of feature like a Recovery Manager protechsmart Symantec Norton internet security evernote skype and office 2010 trail version. The dv6 also feature a biometric fingerprint reader for security, but you can also configure it to start up any application that you frequently use.

                We have compared the HP dv6 with the Acre TimelineX 5830TG, since they both cost about the same and are mainstream multimedia laptops. Here the Acer 5830TG does come across as a better performance simply because of the faster processor and better GPU.The audio quality is also good. Thanks to the beast audio. The bass is lacking but the audio doesn’t feel flat in any way. You will enjoy watching movies or music even headphone. One thing that we do miss, however is USB 3.0 which hopefully HP will add to the 2012 lineup. The 6 cell battery managed about 1 hour and 10 minutes in battery Eater pro which makes it just about average.

                For its price the pavilion dv6 6116tx is a bit underpowered but not many notebooks at this price are built as well as this. If you are not going to be playing too many games then you won’t be disappointed with the dv6.