HP Pavilion dm3 Laptop Announced

Hewlett-Packard announced today the HP Pavilion dm3 13.3-inch entertainment notebook PC, featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Neo Dual Core processors, a choice of Intel shared or ATI or NVIDIA discrete graphics, a run time of “up to 10 hours” via the standard 6-cell battery, a brushed aluminum chassis, and Windows 7 operating system.

Measuring less than one-inch thin and weighing 4.2 pounds, the HP Pavilion dm3 also sports up to 500GB of hard drive space, optionally built-in mobile broadband connection, and a low-light web camera.

When configured with the AMD Neo CPU and ATI GPU combination, the dm3 comes with PowerXpress technology, which provides dedicated higher-performance graphics when plugged in and switches to shared graphics when unplugged for longer battery life.

The HP Pavilion dm3 starts at $549 with an AMD processor and $649 with an Intel chip. The laptop is expected to be available for delivery worldwide starting October 22.

UPDATE: The laptop is available now as the Pavilion dm3t and Pavilion dm3z, based on Intel and AMD CPU technology, respectively.