Weighing an amazing 15.5 pounds and sporting a desktop-sized 20-inch LCD, the HP Pavilion HDX is truly a laptop in name only. This semi-portable home theater system has a Media Center remote that docks right next to the full-size keyboard, an HDMI output, and an optional HD DVD drive.
We first got a glimpse of the massive HP Pavilion HDX system back at CES 2007 and have been eagerly waiting for a review unit ever since. Some system highlights include:
The HDX meets the specs for Intel's revamped Santa Rosa platform, so it has a Centrino Duo sticker. Our preproduction unit also had a top-of-the-line T7700 Core 2 Duo CPU, 3GB of RAM, and dual 100GB hard drives.
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Taking the HDX for a test drive, we loved the removable remote control and the touch-sensitive capacitive media controls. The trickiest part was the giant hinge connecting the screen to the rest of the system. The hinge is attached to the middle of the lid, allowing you to angle the display slightly. When closing the lid, you have to make sure the rear of the screen is pushed all the way back against the hinge, or it'll hit up against the body of the system and potentially crack something. Opening the screen is equally tricky--if you lift from the top of the lid, as is common with laptops, the bottom of the screen will suddenly swing out when it has enough clearance, whacking against the bottom of the chassis. A little practice had us opening and closing the lid with ease, but those first few times were white-knuckle experiences.
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The HDX probably won't ship until at least July, and it starts at $2,999. Fully loaded, it'll run closer to $4,500. If this oversized design looks slightly familiar, that's because you're probably thinking of the lap-busting Dell M2010, released around this time last year.
Details on pretty much every high-profile laptop featuring Intel's equally high-profile new Santa Rosa platform (otherwise known as Centrino Pro or Centrino Duo) are now freely available somewhere or other on this virtual playground we call the Internet.
Originally, dozens of new systems were going to be announced the morning of May 9. While those announcements, and their requisite press releases, will still happen, just about every last cat is already out of the bag.
We previously clued you into leaks about systems from HP, Sony, and Lenovo, and over the last few days a new flood of information has been seen online about Santa Rosa systems from Dell, Fujitsu, and Asus, as well as another HP offering, the massive 20-inch Pavilion HDX.
Dell's got the Latitude D830 and D630 on deck for the company's Santa Rosa launch lineup, reportedly available with SSD hard drive options. These should look familiar to anyone who's seen the current D820 and D620 models.
Fujitsu is said to be prepping the LifeBook E8410/8490 and the LifeBook A6030, at least according to these handy documents found on the FCC Web site.
The 20-inch HP HDX
(Credit: Notebookitalia.it)While full specs and availability dates won't be officially revealed until May 9, most of these systems seem like fairly incremental upgrades to existing models. Bucking that trend, the most interesting leak involves a brand-new product from HP.
Weighing in at a purported 12 pounds and sporting a massive 20-inch LCD, the Pavilion HDX is a laptop in name only. This massive system has a Media Center remote that docks right next to the full-size keyboard, an HDMI output, and an optional HD-DVD drive, according to leaked photos and spec sheets found online. Release dates and details are sketchy, but this guy certainly reminds us of the lap-busting Dell M2010, released around this time last year.
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