HP Pavilion zv5320us Notebook PC (AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)

Rating:
Summary: Almost perfect
Review: Great screen, battery life, nice keyboard, wireless is perfect.
BUT
The CPU will not run faster than 797MHZ on the one I bought, and HP admitted it is a flaw. They claim a BIOS fix will solve the problem and the fix will be available "soon" - I would wait until the problem is fixed befor buying this otherwise very nice machine.

Rating:
Summary: HP zv5320us
Review: I just bought this notebook as a Desktop replacement. Nice machine, although it is a little bit thick.

The incorrect CPU speed reported by the previous user is not a problem. The 797Mhz speed reported is a result of the AMD Powernow! capabilites of the processor. Until there is a demand it will use this setting as an idle to save power.

There is a downloadable app (free from AMD), PowerNow Dashboard which will display this throttling. As far as the system reporting the correct CPU speed, you can get it to report 1.6GHZ if you choose XP power meter settings of "Home/Desktop" and rebooting. This creates a "non-throttle" condition and the CPU reports the full 1.6GHZ processor speed. This also is confirmed by the Powernow Dashboard program showing 100% CPU.