HP Pavillion DV5Z: anyone who has it, is it good for video editing? Is it a POS?

Question

I was told to trade my current POS HP laptop for a Pavillion notebook DV5Z. I googled it but it's all tech or sales stuff. I'm interested in real advice from someone who owns one.

Any problems and what?

Is it good for working with Windows Movie Maker, Roxio or other video editing software?

I need a good laptop to do mainly 3 things:

1) Video Editing such as WMM

2) Word Processor (such as WORD 2003 or Works Wordprocessor)

3) Get on the internet.

That's it. Thanks for your input.

PLEASE: NO SPAMMERS with links to c**p blogs, I want a reply from someone who really owns this PC and can give real advice.

Thank you.

Answer 1

it looks like it should be fine, but that depends on wether the ATI radeon it comes with is integrated or not, if it's integrated then you'll have a bit of trouble editing videos, but if it's a stand alone discrete card, then it should work fine. the processor looks pretty good for what you plan on using it for, just don't get one with a speed lower than 2.0 GHz. and it has a decent amount of RAM. it should be good for what you plan on using it for.