The HP Pavilion dv5-1032 is a reasonable Centrino 2 multimedia laptop.
Because of the powerful components, the fans run always, but the noise level stays alright.
Due to the fast graphics card and the Centrino 2 platform the performance is sufficient for games.
This notebook provides a special feature at the front side: two headphones ports.
Design caused the basses of the speakers are weak. Nevertheless, we liked the speakers.
The moulding above the keyboard provides some hot keys to multimedia functions and looks good.
The keyboard is very good. The touch pad only sufficient, because it has a sticky surface.
At the top of the wide-screen display there is a web-cam.
Although the picture of the reflecting display looks good, it is not ideal in terms of brightness, illumination, and viewing angles.
. and white indicator LEDs.
Similar to current Apple products, HP uses a foldaway hinge.
Unfortunately this high-gloss surfaces are very sensitive to fingerprints.
. and on top part.
. because of the imprint patterns on lid .
The design of the notebook looks good, .
The same is true for the surface temperatures. So, this notebook is recommendable for price-concious gamers.