Friday, April 4, 2003
Hewlett-Packard is planning to equip DVD-recording drives in the consumer PCs. Back in 1999, HP had the success by first introduced the CD-RW ahead of competitors, quickly making the technology standard equipment on all consumer PCs. On Thursday, HP launched its first DVD-burning notebook, the Pavilion ze5300, and a low-cost DVD-recording desktop.
Pricing for computers--$899 for the desktop and $1,723 for the notebook--marks HP''s attempt to take the DVD-recording technology mainstream, an analyst said.
An HP Pavilion ze5300 series notebook configured with a 2.6GHz Pentium 4 processor, 15-inch SXGA+ display, 512MB double-data rate (DDR) SDRAM, a 40GB hard drive, a DVD+R/RW drive, 802.11b wireless networking and Windows XP Home is $1,723 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Dropping to a 2.4GHz processor and a 30GB hard drive would reduce the price to $1,574 after the rebate, which is in the range of some desktop PCs equipped with DVD-recording drives. The computers can be ordered online immediately.
By: DocMemory
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