As is customary in recent years, HP has launched a special edition designed by one of their laptops. This is the new HP Pavilion dv4-1199 Mysterious Waves, which has a blue casing and covered by curved lines, rather attractive black casing of the original model, introduced last year along with the HP Pavilion dv5 and dv7.

14.1 inch display (1280 x 800 pixels) and 2.35 kg, is one of those teams that, in terms of portability, fall halfway between the classic 15-inch laptop models and microlights from 12 or 13 inches (such as HP dv2 and dv3 presented at the 2009 CES). With dimensions 334 x 240 x 34 mm (40 mm at its thickest part), carries in its interior one of the new Centrino 2 processors, including an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 at 2.26 GHz.

Except the new outer casing, whose finish was inspired by the waves of a rough sea (hence the nickname "Mysterious Waves"), the rest of its design is virtually identical to the original HP dv4, with an interior in which the predominant shades of gray. Continuing with their equipment, this special edition comes with 320 GB hard drive (SATA at 5400 rpm) and 4 GB of RAM (still the standard DDR2 800 MHz).

Take a reader Blu-ray, which of course also serves to read and record DVDs. Moving graphics and videos, has an Nvidia GeForce 9200M GS card, well equipped with 512 MB memory exclusively. At the sound, integrated Altec Lansing speakers signed, as is customary in the Pavilion family. If you prefer a larger screen, can use its HDMI output to the TV lounge Slim, or VGA output for computer monitors.

Continuing with the connections, we find the usual Ethernet port, a memory card reader 5 in 1 (SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro and xD), three USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, one eSATA port, two audio outputs for headphones and speakers and a microphone input (although it has a microphone, convenient way to take advantage of the webcam frame of video programs in VoIP such as Skype).

To work without wires, connections are Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. In addition to these two guests who could not miss, is also an infrared port, the HP dv4-1199 Mysterious Waves carries a remote control. It comes by default with a battery of six cells, although HP has not provided guidance on data the usual hours of autonomy they can achieve.

Its price is 1,200 euros. Above what the average user typically invest in a portable (and more current times), although it presents a fairly complete equipment.