The HP Pavilion dv2 is an ultraportable notebook that’s affordable, but has enough graphics muscle that users can enjoy video games and play Blu-ray discs. After toning done the graphics setting, I played Call of Duty Word: World at War at over 30 frames per second and recorded the below video clips.

To achieve the high frame-rate, I had to run it at 640×480 and disable a lot of the game’s special effects.

So far I’ve played World at War for about three hours on the Pavilion dv2 and enjoyed it. Nothing compares to playing games on a proper gaming notebook, but the dv2 is powerful enough to play through current-generation games.

The HP Pavilion dv2 is the first notebook to feature AMD’s Yukon platform, which combines a single-core 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo processor and ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 discrete graphics with 512MB of video memory.

The HP Pavilion dv2 is only availabe in one configuration right now that costs $749.99. More models and custom-configurations will be available in June.

HP Pavilion dv2 Game Demo: Call of Duty World at War is a post by Xavier Lanier from Notebooks.com.

The HP Pavilion dv2 is finally available for order at HPDirect.com. The HP Pavilion dv2 aims to tackle the most common objections to netbooks by offering a bigger display, roomier keyboard, improved graphics and an external optical drive. The first Pavilion dv2 configuration costs $749.99, but we expect that price to drop in the coming months as rebates and other discounts begin to kick in.

The HP Pavilion dv2-1030us is the first pre-configured model HP is selling online. It comes with a 320GB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and an external DVD-RW drive so you can burn and watch movies. Like all Pavilion dv2 configurations, it comes with AMD’s Athlon Neo processor and ATI Mobility Radeon HD3410 graphics.

The HP Pavilion dv2 comes with HDMI and VGA ports so you can easily hook it up to an external display or your HDTV.

Don’t expect it to break any performance records, but it can play back movies smoothly and play some video games.

Kevin Wentzel of HP showed us a pre-production model of the HP Pavilion dv2 a few months ago:

HP Pavilion dv2-1030us Available is a post by Xavier Lanier from Notebooks.com.