Content area
Full Text
Rick Rizner, John Goddard
One of these days I'm going to buy a laptop that's a lot more multimedia savvy than my four-year-old Dell Inspiron 2500. When I do, I will seriously consider a portable like the $1189 HP Pavilion dv4000.
This machine covers all the basics--attractive black and silver case, good keyboard, 15.4-inch wide screen (with BrightView option), and reasonable 6.7-pound weight (without AC adapter, power cord, and optical drive)--plus it acts as a stand-alone DVD and CD player. Movies looked good on the 1280-by-800-pixel wide-aspect screen. The Linux program for playing CDs without booting Windows isn't fancy, but at least it's easy to use. Kick back and control the action with an included credit-card-size remote, which you can store in the PC Card slot when you aren't using it. To help you also get...