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`Rick Rizner, John Goddard
HP Pavilion notebooks have always sounded great, so it's not surprising that the Pavilion Zd7000 has the best sound of any notebook with a 17-inch screen we've tested so far. The integrated Harman/Kardon stereo speakers produce loud, clear audio from a panel that extends across the front; the setup is great for listening to music or watching a movie playing in the fixed DVD+RW drive located on the right side of the unit. The huge screen is impressive, with a standard native resolution of 1440 by 900 pixels. Aided by the top- notch GeForce FX Go 5600 graphics card and 128MB of graphics RAM, the display is sharp and easy to read and offers room for comfortably viewing multiple documents side by side.
Our review unit had the Windows Media Center upgrade ($175, included in our listed price), which comes with an external USB TV tuner and a remote control for recording and watching TV programs on your notebook. If there were a subwoofer (to fill out the bass) and...