With the notebook performance upgrading, the home laptop put video games as a product selling points. It’s easier to meet the needs of audio and video, using any of Core 2 Duo processor with a separate graphics card are able to meet the general needs of people watching high-definition video. The games will set higher requirements on the cards, first of all, it must run the majority of mainstream games smoothly, at least need above the middle level grade card on the mobile platform, it also need good keyboard’s feel and handling, the heat also very important especially for gaming notebook.  

Of course, to achieve the above requirement, whether it is configure or the costs make the price be raised a notch. Various brands notebook manufacturers offer similar high-end audio and video notebooks, actually, it is not great to meet the requiements on configuration, comfort degrees, the control performance. As the large-size video made based entertainment, require its 3D and multimedia performance in a stronger performance. You must undrstand all of aspects if you want to purchase it. HP Pavilion DV6 is a representation of audio-visual class notebook products.

As the strong notebook manufacturers, they have at least one or two flagship audio-visual entertainment notebook. For HP, the video games series notebooks are many, just as our well-known DV2, DV3, they have the different configuration to correspond the different level of demands. HP Pavilion DV6 is a high-end home audio video game notebook, using the intel Core 2 P8700 processor, with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 discrete graphics card, as well as 2GB DDR3 memory, a strong configuration will make the foundation for its outstanding performance.

HP DV series  maintain a consistent pattern of fine workmanship, smooth black piano paint surface, have adopted the metal material rounded corner at in the C side, not only makes the body more robust, but also play a decorative role.  HP Pavilion DV6 uses sinking axle, the benefits are a lot, for example, will not allow body to become thick, the screen has very good stability, the shaft damping force evenly. However, there is also a drawback is that to limit the screen perspective in some extent. We tested this DV3 largest maximum elevation angle is only 130 °.

HP-Imprint-Technology

The entire screen with no frame mirror design, which has no border is actually add a layer of dura mater between the side of the screen and frame, in order to play a role in protecting the screen, the screen size is 15.6 inches with a resolution of 1366 × 768. Also 1.3 million-pixel camera at the top of the screen, there is a group of Mike receiving hole next to it.

Keyboard operation region comes with a black keyboard design, still using the piano paint process, it seems fine luster, but also there is a drawback, which is exposed to fingerprints. The above is only set up a power-up key, and there are no other shortcuts.
The majority of notebook manufacturers use  touch-button alternative to to simplify the keypad buttons in the top of the machine.

In fact, for notebooks, the current to distinguish between the homogenization of the important part is a keyboard design, especially some high-end models, this part is also a need to do as much as possible comfort and humanity.

HP Pavilion DV6 uses full-size keyboard, each keycap surface, have adopted a “concave” design, so that contact area of fingertips and the keycap would be greater when people are typing . Keyboard layout is also more reasonable, a number of key designed to comply with desktop keyboard.

In addition, as a 15.6 inches notebook, equipped with a small keyboard is well deserved. We all know the importance of small keyboards in the business computer. It is also very important that small keyboards in the video games computer, especially in some games, the small number of keyboard shortcuts are designed. In the bottom of a small keyboard with a fingerprint reader, commercially product comes with remote control, it can be said that  the function of HP DV6 is very good.

Palmrest is still using HP Imprint process, with the A surface design, just as gray wavy stripes as decoration. Touch pad is designed with open and shielding keys to prevent users from accidentally hit the touchpad when typing resulting from misuse, many products are placed on this function Fn key combinations, HP’s design of such a separate shortcut keys, using will be more convenient.

As a flagship audio-visual notebook, the performance of the sound is also very strong, DV6 with Altec Lansing speaker system, and the whole region at the top of the keyboard occupied by speaker holes, a pronunciation unit respectively in left and right sides, able to provide better stereo effect.

VGA, HP's exclusive docking station, cable port, HMDI, 2 Ge USB, 1394 port, Express Card, Multi-Card Reader.

DVD driver, 2 USB, security keyhole, power supply interface

system status indicators, audio input and output

For the audio-visual class notebook, the need for a more comprehensive and rich interface to meet the different needs of users, DV6 in the interface are also very comprehensive, is equipped with 4 USB port, and HDMI, VGA video output, as well as 1394.

In layout, DV6 interface, mainly concentrated in the fuselage on both sides, mainly the skin interface are concentrated on the left of the fuselage, it is easy to cause the crowded interface, including HDMI, and 2 USB adjacent close, USB cable as well as in actual use would be often used. It may easy to make trouble if link so many cable.

HP Pavilion DV6 with Altec Lansing speaker system

For the audio-visual notebook, the most important is its audio and video performance. In configuration,  HP dv6-1228TX uses intel Core Duo processor, 2 P8700 processor, pending in the P9000 series, P8700 and P8800 have been the most powerful performance of two processors as a Core 2 P series, because in practice P8800 rarely used in actual products, while the real high-end P series processors, as we often see is the P8700, it has a 2.53GHz frequency, equipped with 3MB 2 cache, support for 1066MHz front-side bus.

As the P8700 is more outstanding performance and low power consumption of only 25w, it is also, without exception, be applied to high-end video game book. It also created a high price, users who select notebooks at the time If you see a use P8700 or more processors, that machine prices are relatively high.

In the image display, there are powerful configurations, DV6 using ATI for the HD4650 graphics cards in the high-end market. HD4650 In fact, the previous generation ATI mobile graphics chip, with NVIDIA GeForce GT130M belong to the same level of graphics cards, HD4650 using 55-nanometer process technology and 128-bit memory bandwidth, equipped with 320 stream processors. In addition dv6-1228TX is equipped with 1GB memory capacity, although the 1GB memory capacity on the overall performance increase is small, but large-capacity memory of the most immediate benefit is to allow the game to run a
large number of texture mapping of the opposite sex to play a better filtering, anti-aliasing performance, can achieve higher resolution.

In software testing, 3DMark 06 finally got 6079 points in the graphics cards in 3DMark Vantge received 2571 points, the score shows that mainstream 3D games can be run smoothly under the medium quality. It is also described as is currently the sole significant upper mid-range notebook performance products. PCMark 05 was 6188 points, the same overall performance is also outstanding performance. Basically, if the PC Mark05 more than 5,000 points, they can be counted as the current mainstream notebook performance, while DV6 overall score of 6,000 points or more can be said that the performance on the mainstream.

We are mainly focusing on hardware configuration, workmanship as well as portability if want to buy laptop, and very few people concern on the notebook built-in software. In fact, a first-line vendors such as HP, in order to increase the user experience, they will often add a lot of built-in software, user-friendly system maintenance as well as the view of the notebook. HP Experience Center is also derived from a user-friendly, the system commonly used in the software and set options have made a reasonable
classification and order. Including the Experience Center, PC help, computer reports, and the security situation these several parts of the computer.

Equipped with a 4200mAh lithium-ion batteries, due to 15.6 inches of screen, plus a separate graphics card, this notebook design standby time is not long, the test is only 2 hours. In fact this notebook users to purchase ordinally use it at home and. After all, the disadvantages of the weight makes it can not have a good portability and the meaning of battery life endurance is not  so important.

Advantages: Excellent workmanship, with a mid-high-end processors and graphics cards, outstanding overall performance.
Disadvantages: short battery life.
My opinion:  HP Pavilion DV6 is mainly for video game users, but also HP’s 16-inch flagship product, in appearance has been maintained possession HP DV series of stylish and sophisticated features. Although there is no top-level configuration with the processor and graphics card, but the Core 2 P8700 processor with HD4650 graphics card can be said that consider on both performance and power consumption. I think HP Pavilion DV6 have excellent performance on video and games, coupled with 15.6 inches of screen, watching movies or playing games will be a very good experience.

HP Pavilion DV6 Features:

•    Modern lines and durable surfaces with a “liquid metallic” appearance
•    Innovative, eye-catching color inside and out
•    Cool designs—based on your color choice—on the side panel, top, and interior
•    A keyboard and touchpad that match the color of your PC
•    An HP logo that lights up when you turn on the PC
•    A 15.6″ diagonal high-definition2 Brightview LED display
•    Optional frameless look (select the Brightview Infinity Display option)
•    The latest options for Intel Centrino processor technology (dual core), for intense multimedia3
•    Fast performance with powerful Nvidia GeForce graphics choices