Description:
Designed to maximize performance while minimizing expense, the HP Pavilion ze4230 is a solid midlevel notebook that's ready to efficiently handle most typical portable computing tasks. If price is a concern but you don't want to settle for a second-rate machine, the Pavilion should warrant serious consideration. Running at 1.8 GHz, the unit's Intel Pentium Celeron CPU is the heart of a sensibly designed processing engine that also includes a generous 512 MB of DDR SDRAM (expandable to 1,024 MB) and a surprisingly capable 64 MB ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chipset. You won't want to rely on the system for high-end 3-D gaming or heavy-duty multitasking, but it should suffice for most everything else. The Pavilion ze4230 features an adequate 40 GB hard disk on which to store your programs and files, and a convenient DVD/CD-RW combo drive through which you can burn and play audio CDs, archive data, and watch the latest movies. No matter what you do, the unit's 15-inch XGA TFT display will convey crisp, clean images to a maximum 1,024 x 768 resolution. HP has even added a 16-bit Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio chipset and integrated Altec Lansing speakers. Controlling the Pavilion ze4230 is a snap. The unit features a full-size 88-key keyboard with embedded numeric keypad, a touchpad 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, a parallel port, serial port, VGA and TV outs, an RJ-45 Ethernet jack for fast network and Internet interaction, and a built-in 56K modem for low-speed e-communication. HP has fitted the Pavilion ze4230 with an eight-cell lithium-ion battery but neglected to incorporate high-speed USB 2.0 or IEEE 1394 interfaces. Pre-installed software includes Corel WordPerfect 10, Intuit Quicken New Users Edition, and an assortment of multimedia utilities.
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