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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
The HP Pavilion Entertainment Notebook PC Dv1000 lives up to its name. A standalone DVD player as well as a laptop, it plays movies or music CDs at the press of a button. An optional $15 remote lets you control the action from up to 10 feet away. (When you're not using it, the remote stores in the laptop's PC Card slot.) The $300 Xb2000 expansion base adds fantastic-sounding speakers. All that's missing is the popcorn.
The Dv1000 is trendy looking, lightweight, and crammed with useful features. The Wi-Fi-ready black-and-silver unit with sloped front weighs just 6.4 pounds altogether. Our unit came with a fixed combination drive whose release button was textured so you could find it easily; you can upgrade to an 8X multiformat DVD burner for $150 more. The excellent keyboard is full of nice touches. We liked the eye-catching navigation keys, which have white tops printed with black arrows. The extra-wide touchpad...