This laptop from HP Pavilion is one of the most popular around and that is all down to being very cheap and yet still equipped very well indeed, this laptop is basically the same as the ever so popular Pavilion dv4000. These HP Pavilion dv5000z Turion 64 laptops are equipped with Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre plus Mobile AMD Turion 64 ML-40 processor at 2.2 GHz and 1024 MB RAM and with a capacity of 120 GB hard drive. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon XPRESS 200. You also get a Dual-Layer DVD+/-RW primary optical drive with LightScribe and wireless 802.11a/g.

You also get a 15.4 inch BrightView widescreen; it is also equipped with 3 USB ports plus a 6-in-1 card reader, accepting SD, XD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, and SM. The battery life on the dv5000z lasted for 5 hours and 14 minutes (well for me it did anyway).

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