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HP Pavilion 8418

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A high-end home PC with excellent

sound quality and graphics

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The Pavilion 8418 is a multimedia home PC. It sports a PII

450 MHz processor with a 9.6 GB hard disk and 128 MB SD-RAM. It has an ATI 3D Rage Pro

Turbo graphics accelerator card with 8 MB video RAM, a 4x DVD-ROM drive, an internal 100

MB Iomega zip drive, and a V.90 56 kbps internal data/fax modem.

Plus a 32-bit PCI sound card capable of 3D-stereo and Dolby

surround sound. There are two PolkAudio speakers and a large sub-woofer that produce

excellent quality sound output.

Our overall experience with the PC was really good. It has

a multimedia keyboard with lots of special function keys that make it a pleasure to work

with. There are keys to operate the Windows Media Player, together with a knob for volume

control and a mute button. Quick-launch-buttons for the Internet, e-mail, and

Internet-search. It also has three user-configurable keys. And an HP scroll-mouse with a

scroll-wheel that makes scrolling through large Web pages very convenient. Even the

15" monitor has various preset modes for playing games, graphics, and running common

applications.

The computer ships with Win 98, and lots of software like

Microsoft Works 4.5a, MS Money, QuickLink III Fax, Quicken 98, EasyPhoto, Encarta 99, HP

Pavilion Media Rack, VCD Player, a DVD player and Incoming.

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