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HP Pavilion HDX

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Pros
Gorgeous 20.1-inch display
CPU supports high-end graphics
Cons
Very expensive
Case shows fingerprints easily

Performance: Very Good: 86
Features: Good: 73
Design: Very Good: 88

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	477
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	421
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	623
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	1:27:02 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	111.53
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	133.74
Firefox 2	335
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	375
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	236
Multitasking	402
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	852
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	222
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	267
WorldBench 6 Score	85
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the Pavilion HDX

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.