Hewlett-Packard pushes CD-RW

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By Ashlee Vance

(IDG) -- Hewlett-Packard is moving CD-rewriteable drives into the mainstream. The company released new consumer desktops Tuesday, making the CD-RW drives standard from top to bottom in its Pavilion line and adding DVD-Read-Only Memory drives to most Pavilion models.

HP announced five new Pavilion desktops, most of which are available immediately; a high-end 1.7-GHz Pentium 4-based system will ship in May. Prices range from $699 to $2299.

"This is the first time we have been able to push CD-RW drives into the entry-level PCs," says Tom Markworth, product marketing manager for Pavilion PCs at HP. "The feedback from consumers was that CD-RW is something that needs to be a standard part of the PC package."

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At the low end, the $699 Pavilion 6835 comes with Intel's Celeron 800-MHz processor, 128MB of SDRAM, a 30GB hard drive, and a CD-RW drive.

For $400 more, users can get the Pavilion 7855, a 1-GHz Pentium III-based system that adds a 12-speed DVD drive and a 10/100 Ethernet networking card, and provides a larger, 60GB hard drive. It also has 128MB of SDRAM and a CD-RW drive.

For added power, HP offered its $1599 Pavilion 7875 using an Advanced Micro Devices Athlon processor running at 1.3 GHz. The beefier processor is complemented by an 80GB hard drive and 128MB of double data rate memory. With the Athlon chip and an Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics card, this PC lends itself to graphics-intensive applications. It also comes with a Universal Serial Bus optical scroller mouse, which is supposed to eliminate the need for a mouse pad.

HP will release an additional PC in early May that will be the company's highest-end consumer desktop. That model will come with a Pentium 4 running at 1.7 GHz and prices will start at $2299.

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