The shape of this Hewlett Packard Pavilion laptop is very good, I like it and he got side task it's amazing computer quick play and other things that would take me ages to include... for example a much better webcam. I would well recommend this Hewlett Packard Laptop.

Absolutely love my HP Pavilion DV2530EA as I get to know it I am further rewarded, am starting to use it for the apps I used to run on my desktop and it easily outperforms that, although my desktop is getting on a bit.

Overall very happy, also gets admiring glances from other notebook owners, even, amusingly, Mac users!

Got this machine a few weeks ago when the price dropped with a well known online retailer (delivered in under 24 hours), don't know if they made a mistake or what, but I got great value for money.
Good machine with all the bells and whistles, fingerprint reader, wifi, bluetooth, digital TV system, web cam, remote controls, 2 Gig of Ram and an Intel core 2 duo from a top flight manufacturer, what more could you ask for?
So far I have only seen the battery last up to 2 hours 45 mins, but in fairness this was still with the wifi switched on and browsing for most of the time.
It's quite a bit lighter than my last laptop(15.4") but I can't say that I've noticed the screen that much smaller.

The only thing I don't like (and this is a personal thing)is the "brightscreen". I find it difficult to read outside, and not only on bright days.

One thing to watch. Maybe I did something wrong but when I updated the HP "quick view" software the web cam stopped working and I had to do a restore to the previous software to get it back again.
Some third party software is still not available in a Vista version. Ah well... all things in good time.

So, so far so good... many more pros than cons and great value for the money (in my case anyway).

Buy the PAvilion DV2530EA without any hesitation.