Hewlett Packard Pavilion DM1Z Fusion Ultraportable Review

The system is limited to 3.8 in the Windows Experience Index – due to the processor. This is pretty much what we expected from our previous E350 Fusion reviews.

The system unfortunately has a lot of software pre-installed, many of which are HP branded media titles. They might be useful for the target audience, but a quick system clearout would be our first port of call. Nortons Internet Security Suite and a trial version of Microsoft Office 2010 were also installed.

Some of the software will appeal to a wide audience, such as the Stardock ‘Fences' package. This is a software suite which Hewlett Packard have opted to install to try and help the user keep their desktop tidy. We find these suites interfere with how we work, but we can see a healthy portion of the audience finding it appealing.

A quick overview of the system, centered around the AMD Zacate E-350 dual core processor, built on 40nm architecture and running at 1.6ghz.

To test the Fusion platform today, we are using a wide selection of real world and synthetic tests, clearly labeled. If you are only interested in video quality and hardware performance we advise you to shift forward in the review to the real world and image quality sections.

We also felt it would be interesting to compare some of our findings against the Intel Atom platform, in the shape of the 1.8GHz D525 and the 1.66ghz D510 processors. We have also included results from a previous generation AMD Turion 64 X2 L510 clocked at 1.6ghz.

Supplemental Hardware:
Solid State Drive: ADATA S599 256GB
Optical: Asus USB 2.0 BluRay Drive
Monitors: LaCie 730 (IQ testing) and Dell U2410

Comparison processors:
Atom D525 @ 1.8ghz
Atom D510 @ 1.66 ghz
Turion X64 X2 L510 @ 1.6ghz

Software:
Aida 64
SiSoft Sandra
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cyberlink Media Espresso
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V10
3Dmark Vantage
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
Left4Dead2

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Kill A Watt Meter

All results are gained from multiple test runs to ensure any abnormalities are removed before publication.

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