According to the HP product spec page, you system has a
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2.2 GHz Intel Core2 Duo Processor T6600
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This is a 64 bit system, so as long as you install a 64 bit version of linux, the a Nvidia driver should work. The Nvidia hardware is listed as
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Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce G 103M
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As you have pointed out, the first driver lists your hardware. You are good to go.
I have similar hardware, my CPU is AMD however. I'm running Mandriva 2010, 64 bit version. Mandy detected my hardware, and the Nvidia driver was loaded without any intervention on my part. On older versions this was not the case. Mandy used to install a dumbed down Nvidia driver, and I had to do some editing of config files, and install the full version of the Nvidia driver. That problem is gone in 2010 version.