HP Rolls Out Sleek Consumer PCs, Digital Entertainment Centers for the Holidays

HP Rolls Out Sleek Consumer PCs, Digital Entertainment Centers for the Holidays

HP today introduced a PC and Digital Entertainment Center lineup that offers consumers sleek design and innovative features, all in time for holiday shopping. Announced at the DigitalLife show, the offerings include the 17-inch HP Pavilion dv8000 series Notebook PC and the company’s smallest consumer desktop PC to date – the HP Pavilion s7000 series Slimline PC. Putting the power and performance of a traditional desktop into a small, hip design, the quiet-operating Slimline PC adds to the décor of any home. Also built with a sharp eye on design, the HP Digital Entertainment Center z556 and z558 series come with the latest version of Microsoft Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Update Rollup 2 and can record high-definition content over the air.(1) With prices starting at $1,499,(2) these HP products are the most affordable Media Center solutions on the market offering HD digital video recording capabilities.(3)

“No two customers are created equal and HP is demonstrating, with these announcements, the kind of breadth they are capable of and confirming a belief that size does matter,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst, The Enderle Group. “From the best Digital Entertainment Center in the market to the first affordable small form factor desktop PC from one of the top three vendors to a stunning and unique 17-inch notebook that would make a user proud without making them broke, HP is providing the leading-edge products that consumers are looking for this holiday season.

“Along with the new DECs, HP’s latest Media Center desktop PCs and select Pavilion desktop PCs also are shipping with Microsoft Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 with Update Rollup 2. Consumers can enjoy movies and view photos in rich, crisp color at home or on the go with HP’s innovative QuickPlay(4) for playing DVDs and music without a full system boot up, massive notebook storage capacity with a dual hard drive option, and an extra large 17-inch widescreen display that features HP’s BrightView technology.

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