|  | Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: Personal Computer
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2011
Hardware Type: Notebook Computer
Platform: Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: Personal Computers
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP2
CPU Manufacturer: AMD
CPU Speed: 1.8
CPU Type: AMD Athlon
Processors: 1
System Bus Speed: 1600
System Memory: 512
Memory Type: DDR SDRAM
Secondary Cache Size: 1
Keyboard: 101-key compatible
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Hard Drive Size: 60
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 4 440 Go
Graphics RAM: 64
Native Resolution: 1280-by-768
Modem: 56 Kbps
Network Interface: Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN, 54g 802.11b/g WLAN with 125HSM/SpeedBooster support
Free Memory Slots: 1
Includes Software: Symantec Norton Antivirus 2005, Notebook Help & Support Adobe, Acrobat Reader, Sonic RecordNow, InterVideo WinDVD, InterVideo Home Theater, Apple iTunes and Apple iTunes Music Store, Adobe PhotoShop Album STE, Muvee autoProducer, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Money, MSN Encarta Plus, Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition (60 Day Trial Version), MS Zones.com, HP Image Zone Plus
Display Size: 15.4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.9
Dimensions (in): 14.3 x 11.6 x 1.8
1 notebook expansion port
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: PR465UA#ABA
Model: PR465UA#ABA
UPC: 829160786339
EAN: 0829160786339
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Great Purchase April 5, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent upgrade from a 98 desktop. Everything I could ever want in a multi task computer, including all of the preinstalled software. I am very happy with this choice.
 Great widescreen HP for short money June 25, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this HP Pavilion ZV5410US about twenty-two months ago. No hardware problems. I play a few DVD's on it weekly. I've used some demanding video editing, photo editing, CAD programs, drawing programs, games... you get the picture; it doesn't choke on anything. I paid $950 for it at Staples on sale. Very happy with it.
I use a Sprint AirCard 580 WAN which lets me surf the web anywhere! At DSL speeds of 500 to 1000 Kbps! The battery life suffers, though, while using the PC WAN card. The Athlon 64 is a powerful CPU which needs, guess what? a lot of power! This machine is best suited for desktop replacement. Otherwise, bring the brick along with you and sit near an outlet at Star*bucks or the library. You need long battery life? - spend twice as much for a So*ny. One can, however, buy a high capacity battery for this laptop. Better to invest in adapter cables to use on airplanes and cars.
The hard drive is a Serial ATA 60 GB unit which has scored well in a hard drive tuneup program I ran on it. The screen is bright. The sound system is excellent for a laptop, but I usually use earphones to listen to my several gigabytes of songs in iTunes. Few speaker systems under a $1000 do justice to most recordings, but many earphones sound super.
In the time I have had this HP Pavilion ZV5410US I have had zero hardware problems with it. As with any Win*dows computer, you have to keep your startup list of programs short, keep your hard drive defragmented, run a good registry tuneup program such as Regis*try Mech*anic (which found over 950 registry errors the first time I ran it! and that was after having to reload the operating system after Win*dows refused to boot - no problems since then because I run it weekly now). If you hear any complaints about this machine, you are probably listening to someone who, like Pogo of comic strip fame, could say, "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" One has to understand that Win*dows is the buggiest major microcomputer operating system in existence. Don't blame the hardware.
HP has an excellent website where you can download updates to the BIOS or the video card. HP computers come loaded with an excellent help system. When I was a professional business computer programmer/analyst on HP's 3000 series minicomputers in another life, we had a saying: HP stood for 'High Priced' - not any more! This series using the Athlon 64 CPU and the wide screen display is, as the French say: bon marche, cheap in price. But high in value. Frankly, I don't know how they make a machine this good and still manage to sell it as such a reasonable price. You don't need to pay $1500 or $2000 for a dependable laptop that has enough processing power for anyone but a hardcore gamer or a nuclear weapons designer.
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