Description:
HP's Pavilion ze4315us Notebook PC is a sensibly designed and very affordably priced mobile solution that's ready for most typical business, personal, and leisure tasks. However, it simply isn't fast or capable enough to handle the wide variety of high-end applications most folks tend to run on their workhorse PC, so we can't recommend it as a desktop replacement machine. At 12.96 by 10.72 by 1.57 inches, the Pavilion ze4315us is a bit larger than some of the alternatives. It is conveniently lightweight though, at a mere 7.25 pounds. Inside, HP has installed a capable yet cost-effective 1.67 GHz Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor 2000+ with PowerNow Technology, 256 MB of DDR SDRAM memory, and an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chipset with 64 MB of shared (not dedicated) memory. This is an ample power plant for a mobile machine, though it shouldn't be expected to efficiently drive most high-end 3D games, animation packages or other ultra-complex applications. The unit features an adequate 40 GB hard disk, and a DVD+CD-RW combo drive that will allow you to listen to and burn music CDs, backup your data to CD and play the latest movies. DVD burning is not supported. The system's crisp 15-inch XGA TFT display supports images of 1024x768 resolution, and its integrated 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio chipset and on-board Altec-Lansing speakers ensure your sound is accurately delivered. Controlling the Pavilion ze5270 is a snap. The unit features a full size 88-key keyboard with embedded numeric keypad, a Touch Pad with on/off button, and a dedicated vertical scroll up/down pad. Other amenities include two USB 1.1 ports for plug and play peripherals, an S-Video TV-out, an RJ-45 Ethernet jack for fast network and Internet interaction, and a built-in 56K modem for low-speed e-communication. The system does not include an IEEE 1394 FireWire port.
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