HP Pavilion ZD7000 series Review 

HP Pavilion zd7000 series Review will help help you to select the proper laptop.HP Pavilion zd7000 comes with 17 inch Wide display. This laptop can replace your desktop. It has Intel 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 processor with 512MB DDR SDRAM which is sufficient for most of the business applications. The 80GB hard drive with DVD+RW drive gives total flexibility. It comes with four USB 2.0 and one FireWire port. However weight of around 9.3 lbs makes it sturdy.

HP has designed this Laptop to replace your desktop. Because of 17 inch wide screen display, you get excellent multimedia experience. You can also watch movies. The 17 inch wide screen is impressive. It Gives excellent performance with GeForce FX Go 5600 graphics card and 128MB of graphics RAM. It gives crisp and sharp display which is also easy to read. The ultimate DVD+ RW combination will give you facility to burn DVD movies. You can also burn MP3 files and make your own albums. If you are a music lover then you will love the built in Harman Kardon speaker. It gives the ultimate music listening experience.

17 Inch Screen Suitable for Gamer 

HP image zone allows you to edit your photos. You can touch up the brightness and color of the photos. Also you can organize your photographs. If you are a gamer, you will like it’s 17 inch screen. This computer comes with nVidia GeForce FX Go 5600 graphics adapter to give truly world class graphic experience.The two bottom side fans help to take out the heat and keep it cool.

Laptop hard drive speed is 5400 rpm. HP should have provided higher speed drive. However the capacity of drive is higher at 80 GB.

DVD+RW drive 

On a more positive note, the DVD+RW drive offers excellent performance as both a DVD reader and DVD burner. You can also burn CD-R media as well. It can burn DVD in 20 minutes and CD in 5 minutes. At full speed it’s very quiet.

Input output ports

All the Input output ports are available in this HP Pavilion zd7000. It has USB 2.0, firewire port, Audio out, Mic, VGA, Fast Ethernet, 56K modem, parallel and PS/2 port. There is a facility to upgrade memory up to 2 GB.

Built In Windows Media Player 9 

This laptop’s greatest strength is running multimedia applications. It is shipped with Windows® XP Home Edition 2004. It is built in with Windows Media® Player 9 Series gives fast and flexible playback with the best audio and video quality output.Like most wide-screen notebooks, the Zd7000 is very heavy. It weighs 9.3 pounds (11.1 pounds including the power adapter). The expanded keyboard with numerical keypad will be useful for fast calculations. The problematic area is battery. As the design is heavy duty, it is heavy on battery too. Both the hard-drive and RAM slots are easy to reach in their compartments on the bottom of the notebook. Four small screws hold the panel covering the drive.

Advantages – Fast CPU, wide 17 inch display, video recorder

Disadvantages – Weak Battery, Heavy weight

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