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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98213 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett Packard
• Model: VG245AA #ABU
• Released on: 2009-11-10
• Dimensions: 21.16 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Timeless, classic design and impressive performance
The new HP Pavilion P-Series desktop PC is a fusion of style and impressive entertainment features. The beautiful deep high-gloss piano black with a touch of chrome exterior is a stylish addition to any home, where hidden connectors and disc drives add to the sleek styling.

Stylish high gloss piano black and chrome exterior

This desktop doesn’t just look good, it delivers maximum performance. Inside the P-Series, the powerful AMD Athlon II X4 processor 620 and NVIDIA GeForce G210 graphics card equips you with power to create multimedia, destroy your gaming enemies, or run multiple application simultaneously. This processor ensures you don’t have to compromise on what you want to do, giving a fantastic PC experience.

Exclusively to HP notebooks and PCs – MediaSmart turns your PC into the ultimate entertainment centre

Experience your digital world like never before
HP MediaSmart software is an exclusive with the latest HP PCs and notebooks, transforming your PC into an entertainment centre.

The one-click menus provide instant access to multimedia content including, movies, photos, music and TV* shows. View slide shows of your favourite holiday snaps or use built-in editing tools to help you instantly improve photos, effortlessly rotate, crop, enhance or remove red-eye in one simple click. It is just as simple to record and edit videos; you can even rate, tag and search videos with easy to use built-in management tools and if it’s DVDs you’re watching, you can be sure that the clarity and smoothness is optimised through HP SmoothMotion software.

Have fun with your personal music collection and explore new music. Create, edit, search and browse your music playlists using the interactive software, in a fun new way. With a TV* tuner you can watch your favourite TV* programs and enjoy primetime, classic shows and cartoons from around the world, over the Internet, at a time that suits you.

With HP MediaSmart having fun has no limits.

Breathtaking graphics and audio performance
A wide range of stylish HP LCD widescreen monitors** are available to complement the design style of the P-Series and help your movies come alive with the crispest and most vibrant colours.

The sound doesn’t disappoint either with High-Definition Audio 5.1 you can enjoy your movies with the highest quality sound and it deserves. Two front audio ports and three rear analog audio ports give you multiple acoustic options.

For the “big-screen” effect, through the HDMI and VGA ports you can even watch movies through your HDTV* or another VGA monitor or projector. This is achieved using the appropriate cables***.

Get all the video processing power that your digital lifestyle requires
If you want to enhance photos, edit videos, watch movies, play games, or if you simply desire a Premium Windows 7 Experience, the NVIDIA GeForce G210 graphics card with PureVideo and 512MB dedicated graphics memory brings impressive graphics processing power to your PC. Enhance photos, clean up home videos or make your DVDs look like HD.

As a leader in visual computing and the inventor of the GeForce GPU, NVIDIA worked closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7 to ensure that its GPUs take full advantage of the great new features and functionality. If you use your PC to enhance photos, watch or edit videos, play games, or if you simply desire a fast and efficient graphical interface, NVIDIA GPUs will surely delight your senses and offer a premium Windows 7 experience.

Complete connectivity with 6 USB ports

Rapidly upload all your holiday snaps with the integrated 5-in-1 memory card reader.

Incredible expansion and connectivity
The P-Series will accommodate as many as six peripherals at any time with its 6 USB 2.0 ports (two in the front). Also on board are two external optical drive bay ports, two internal HDD bay ports, 1 pocket media drive bay, and 4 PCI-Express slots. It also incorporates a 10/100/1000 Gigabit integrated network interface, so you can quickly and easily share your files with your family, friends and colleagues.

Ultimate processing power
The HP Pavilion P-Series is powered by AMD Athlon II X4 620 processor, which delivers incredible performance and multitasking for everyday computing. The AMD Athlon II X4 620 processor delivers multi-core value with superior high definition computing, advanced multitasking performance and energy efficient solutions. Built from the true quad- and triple core performance, AMD Athlon II X4 processors advanced visual design and modeling, gaming, and visually digital media and entertainment.

No more labels. Use LightScribe to burn precise, silkscreen-like text and images directly onto your LightScribe CD or DVDs.

Monstrous hard drive, optical drive and memory
The incredible 1TB Serial-ATA (SATA) 3G hard drive (5400 RPM) maintains high data transfer speeds, meaning you don’t need to wait long for your documents and pictures to open. To support this, the P-Series comes with an impressive 4GB DDR3-SDRAM standard memory and two DIMM sockets for memory expansion. DDR3 is the next generation memory, twice as fast as its predecessor DDR2. DDR3 offers an impressive increased performance whilst using less power, only 1.5 volts. Rapid data transfer speeds of up to 1600Mbps allow you to run many simultaneous tasks.

With the versatile DVD writer SATA DVD RAM and Double Layer supporting LightScribe technology you can laser etch your own disc labels from right inside your DVD drive. No ink, no messy markers or clumpy adhesive labels, with LightScribe you simply burn your data, flip the disc over and burn a precise, silkscreen-like text, photo or graphic label directly onto your LightScribe CD or DVD.

This drive will write to:
DVD+R, DVD-R at up to 16x speed
DVD-RAM at up to 12x speed
DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, and DVD+RW at up to 8x speed
DVD-RW at up to 6x speed
CD-R at up to 48x speed
CD-RW at up to 32x speed

And read industry standard DVD-ROM at up to 16x speed, CD-ROM at up to 48x speed

Other features and accessories
Rapidly upload all your holiday snaps with the integrated 5-in-1 memory card reader. So whether you are saving your information on Secure Digital, Multimedia, xD Picture cards or using Memory Stick or Memory Stick Pro, you can rest assured that the P-Series desktop will be able to read your documents easily. To complete the impressive array of hardware the HP Pavilion Slimline also comes complete with a remote control, for comfortable entertainment, full-size wireless keyboard and wireless mouse.

Powerful software for a powerful machine
The P-Series is pre-packed with the latest applications, tools and operating systems to ensure that you get the ultimate computing experience. It comes with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) as standard, the perfect choice for going beyond mere email and web surfing to improve personal productivity and get the best in all kinds of digital entertainment.

The latest Microsoft operating system, Windows 7 comes with several performance improvements that are designed to sleep and resume quicker, be less memory hungry and spot USB devices much faster. Windows 7 simplifies everyday tasks such as introducing improved taskbar previews, bigger icons and creative ways to personalise on the desktop. It provides easy and quick access to your favourite pictures, songs, websites and documents through new jump lists. Finally search has been improved to make searching your PC as easy as searching on the web.

Well that’s just for starters, take a look at this line-up of pre-loaded software:

Microsoft Works (word processor, spreadsheet, calendar and database), Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Mail, Windows Media Centre, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Media Player, Cyberlink DVD Suite, EasyBits Magic desktop, HP MediaSmart Suite: Music, video, DVD Photo; HP Total Care, Windows Media Player, HP Games Console with hours of free game play and Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009. Also included is a free 60-day trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 Home Edition.

Finally, for your peace of mind
You’ll want the best in technical support, so it comes with a one-year, pick-up and return, parts and labour warranty. And naturally, this can be extended for a small extra premium.

*TV Tuner sold separately
**Monitor sold separately
***Cables sold separately

Box Contains

Desktop

Power Adapter

USB keyboard

Optical mouse

Product Manual

Warranty