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Product description from HP Home:

Experience and share digital entertainment whenever the mood strikes with our sty
lish, powerful Pavilion Elite m9500z series. It’s a solid performer whether you’re streaming videos, editing photos, or backing up files.

Genuine Windows Vista

Get things done, stay connected, and enjoy entertainment in a secure environment with genuine Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. This series comes with genuine Windows Vista Home Premium, which includes Windows Aero, Windows Media Center, and instant search.» Compare operating system choices

The advantages of AMD

Design it, render it, play it, create it, stream it, HD it1. Get superior high-def computing, advanced multitasking, and energy efficiency. AMD Phenom II processors supply:

• Vivid HD realism for performance gaming and entertainment
• The ability to do it all: ultra overclocking and faster processing on all your apps, all at once
• A sleek, quiet machine that saves energy by using only the power you need

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Exceptional performance

This powerful entertainment hub is ready for challenging mul!
timedia.
It’s great for graphics-intensive files, music, and high-def movies. You get:

• Mega dual-channel DDR2 800MHz SDRAM options for data-intensive activities like photo editing and song downloading
• Genuine Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 for getting things done and staying connected in a protected environment
• Ample storage: SATA hard drive configurability up to 1TB, or select a RAID-enabled hard drive for mirroring (data backup and security) or high performance
• A PCIe X16 expansion slot for graphics card
• A 15-in-1 digital media card reader with remote for transferring photos and music from portable devices and cameras
• An easily accessible front I/O port
• Storage expansion via built-in bays for a personal media drive and pocket media drive (both optional)
• The ability to design and print silkscreen-quality DVD and CD labels with LightScribe7
• An HP Easy Backup Button, which lets you instant
  ly back up (or schedule backups) to an external hard drive, personal media drive, networked drive, or disc

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Total entertainment

The m9500z supplies home-theater-quality video and brings images, videos, and games to life on your screen. Want realistic gaming, stunning images, and high-definition videos? You’ll get:

• Preinstalled software that lets you compress large video files, stream content to any Internet-connected media player (including on a cell phone or PDA), and back up to an on-line server
• An optional tuner and personal video recorder for essentially turning your PC into a TV (tuner features Clear QAM, which lets you view high def non-premium cable programs)
• High-quality, integrated Intel High Definition Audio with up to 7.1 surround sound, plus THX sound quality with optional upgrades
• An optional Blu-ray DVD writer/player, which lets you read/write Bl
  u-ray discs, read HD DVD discs, and read/write traditional D!
  VDs and
  CDs
• An optional USB wireless LAN card2 and Bluetooth for connecting a wireless printer and other accessories

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A rich digital world

Experience the latest innovations in digital multimedia with our MediaSmart software, which turns your desktop into a one-stop shop for multimedia and entertainment:

• Photo and video editing with easy media management tools; then share them via popular Internet Services, YouTube, and Snapfish3
• The ability to make, edit, search for, and listen to music playlists
• Pandora Internet Radio Service3 for discovering new music
• Viewing DVDs and Blu-ray6 movies in HD4
• TV via a tuner5 or on demand3

Quality software and support

We test and qualify all software sold with our PCs to help ensure a trouble-free experience with your new computer. You get:

• 15 months of complimentary live updates to Symantec Norton Internet Security2
• Our one-year, limited warranty for parts and labor, plus support toll-free, 24 x 7, via on-line chat, or via e-mail (in about an hour)
• One year of free limited software support8
• Convenient in-home service if needed (HP may, at its discretion, supply on-site support for troubleshooting and repair)9

1. HD monitor required and sold separately.
2. Wireless access point and Internet service required, not included.
3. Internet access required and sold separately.
4. High-def content required to view HD images.
5. TV tuner req., sold sep. Availability of signals limited by strength, accessibility of originating TV signal, location, other factors. Performance factors may arise, do not constitute defects in product.
6. As Blu-Ray is a new format containing new technologies, certain disc, digital connection and compatibility and/or performance issues may arise and do not constitute defects in the product. Flawless playback o
n all systems is not guaranteed. In order for some Blu-Ray t!
itles to
play, they may require a DVI or HDMI digital connection and your display may require HDCP support. This Blu-Ray drive does not support writing to ultra-high speed CDRW media (16x to 32x advertised performance).
7. Requires LightScribe discs.
8. Support available for one year from date of purchase/lease. Dated sales or delivery receipt. is proof of purchase/lease; you may be required.to provide it as condition of receiving support. Support available only for software preinstalled by HP.
9. In-home warranty available on select customizable HP desktop PCs. Need for in-home service determined by HP support rep. Customer may need to run system self-test programs or correct reported faults by following advice over the phone. On-site service provided only if issue can’t be corrected remotely. Service not available. holidays, weekends.

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