hp pavilion hdx: the world’s largest laptop?

May 11th, 2007 post a comment (3) stumble it! by: technabob

While most of the world is interested in making computers more and more portable, HP has taken the opposite approach with their high end gaming notebook.

HP HDX Gaming Notebook

The centerpiece of the new HP Pavilion HDX is its whopping 20-inch widescreen display, capable of displaying high definition content at up to 1680 x 1050 pixel resolution (plans for a full 1080p display are reportedly in the works.) The fully decked-out system comes with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 CPU, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600XT graphics, a 400GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM. There’s even a digital high definition television tuner on board.

Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth connectivity are built in. Plus, the system comes with pretty much every connection option you’d ever need, including: USB, Firewire, HDMI, VGA, eSATA, 5.1 audio, IR Blaster, antenna, s-video input and output, microphone and dual headphone jacks.

All this power does come at a price however. The HDX weighs in at a hefty 15.5 pounds, almost triple the weight of compact notebooks these days. Priced as configured above, it’ll set you back over $4000, but systems will start around $3k.

[via LAPTOP]

May 11th, 2007 post a comment (3) stumble it! by: technabob

3 comments post a comment

1. CO | May 12th, 2007 at 8:30 am

That is one big laptop. That must be close to 15-20lbs to lug around. Might as well get a powered desktop instead.
2. Scritcher | September 7th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

I have one of these, the way i had it outfitted (CTO is the way to go!) it cost me $4K. It s sweet machine and games OK once i ripped the guts out of Vista.

The whole thing is very impressive just sitting there but it’s a bit of a load to actually put it on my lap. So I built a little tray to put it on and actually put it on my lap without it cooking my knees, (4-6 hours a day but i am comfy in a recliner). The tray is nothing more than a piece of hardboard with two wooden mouldings epoxied to it to make a 1″ space under it.

Its quite a head turner at the coffee shop too! If you’re a gamer geek go for it, but more practically; if you do presentations to fairly small groups you can leave your projector and the often embarrassing fumbling with it behind and let the gorgeous 20″ monitor do the job.
3. Thomas | October 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 am

This laptop is AWESOME!