HP PAVILION HDX ENTERTAINMENT NOTEBOOK PC REVIEW

Introduction
This is an entertainment laptop which uses the Intel Santa Rosa platform. This beast is equipped with a 20-inch widescreen, ATI HD2600 XT graphics card, HD DVD optical drive, integrated HDTV tuner, and integrated web-camera.

Design
The laptop is overall glossy colored in black and silver. This laptop is quite breathtaking with the 20-inch widescreen and the beautiful design. This laptop also features a dual-hinge display. Rather than opening with a single large hinge at the back of the notebook, the 20.1" display swings open with a center-mounted rear hinge and is further adjustable with a second hinge at the back of the display allowing you to turn the screen as much as you want for the perfect viewing angle.

With this laptop you also get a real full size keyboard with dedicated number pads. Above they keyboard you will find plenty of touch sensitive keys which works as a media center. The laptop is solid overall with the touch pad and they keyboard in a good place. However the palmrest temperature can get a little bit “hot” after a few hours of playing games or chatting. To the left of they keyboard you will find a media center remote control. Here you can control the volume, play, pause etc.


Screen
The 20.1" WSXGA+ display on the HDX is of excellent quality and with a max resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels. This screen works also great if you watch it in horizontal and vertical viewing angles. This is what makes it so good for many people to watch a movie on the laptop at one time. And if you get any reflections from the glossy screen you can simply just turn the screen around. The screen is overall good with no weaknesses as far as I can see.

Performance
What would a laptop of this size be if the performance was not there? Overall the performance is very good for a multimedia laptop like this. This laptop come with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 (2.4GHz), ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT (256MB) and 4GB DDR2 system memory. As you see there is not a lack of performance in this beast and you will have good FPS on most games. On the benchmarks we got 4201 points on 3DMark 06 and 9046 points on 3dMark 05.

Conclusion
This is one of the best multimedia / entertainment systems of 2007. With the 20-inch screen and a powerful performance this laptop will reach a long way into 2008.

Pros
+ Excellent screen quality
+ Great performance
+ Good features

Cons
- Weights 20 pounds

Value For Money

Our Rating