In Pictures: HP's Supersized Multimedia Notebook

Here is the notebook as seen from the rear; the silver support in the center serves as a kickstand for the adjustable, 20.1-inch, WSXGA+ (1680 by 1050 resolution) High-Definition HP Ultra Brightview Widescreen Display screen.

The 20.1-inch display is mounted on a hinged support, so you can adjust the display's angle from straight to a more comfortably viewed incline.

At the top of the screen, HP integrates a swiveling 640-by-480-resolution Webcam. Flanking it is a dual-array microphone.

Beneath the stylishly textured and seamlessly integrated touchpad, the notebook sports a handy microphone jack and dual-headphone inputs.

Above the keyboard, the HDX has an array of backlit capacitive touch soft-keys, for launching shortcuts, controlling media playback, activating the integrated wireless antenna (for 802.11a/g/n and Bluetooth 2.0), and adjusting volume, treble, and bass.

Like many notebooks today, HP's HDX provides an integrated fingerprint reader for easy access to the PC and to online accounts.

Inset to the left of the keyboard is HP's pop-out remote control. The remote handles all media-playback functions, and works either independently or while docked in the notebook.

The media remote includes navigation and playback controls, as well as a Windows Vista Media Center button.

The right side of the notebook has two convenient USB 2.0 ports, plus a combination optical drive for playing HD DVD-ROMs and burning CDs and DVDs.

The HP HDX's rear ports include (from left to right) a line-in port, an IR emitter input, an S-Video input, and a coaxial video input.

Also on the rear of the HP HDX is a set of 1/8-inch analog speaker outputs, consisting of (from left to right) side, rear, center/subwoofer, and front connections.

The left side of the notebook features (from left to right) two USB ports, a gigabit ethernet port, an expansion port, and a VGA port.

The left side of the notebook is packed with ports. In addition to the connections shown in the previous slide, it has (from left to right) an HDMI input, an External SATA input, a four-pin FireWire 400 input, a media card slot (for reading SD Card, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD-Picture Card), and an ExpressCard/54 slot.

The HDX uses integrated audio to achieve 7.1-channel analog sound output. If you don't want to connect external speakers, you'll find that the four built-in Altec Lansing speakers and the integrated HP Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer (shown here on the underside of the unit) do nicely.

Not only is the HDX itself a behemoth, but so too is the notebook's bricklike power pack.

The HP HDX Entertainment Notebook comes with a hefty, 1.1-pound, nine-cell lithium ion battery.