HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition Laptop Released With AMD Llano APUs, $649.99 For Quad Core
Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by LaptopMan in Laptops, Laptops
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has successfully begun shipping their new revolutionary Llano Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun offering a new AMD Llano Quad Core laptop aptly named HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition series.
The new dv6z is all AMD inside and it starts at the affordable price of just $649.99, yes you can get a quad-core 15.6-inch laptop for that low price thanks to AMD’s affordable APUs.
Hold-on now you might not know just what an APU is, so if you don’t it’s basically a processor a DirectX 11 integrated graphics processor all on one chip. The APU is a real engineering feat that provides performance and power efficiency all at the same time, and not to mention the low price.
To get back to the new laptop, though. It’s just like all of HP’s other notebook computers, the HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition series laptop is very customizable. In the APU department alone HP has provided buyers with a selection of five AMD Llano Quad-Core APUs for their system. In other areas like memory and storage there are five different options each as well.
However for the base $649.99 model you will get the following main specifications:
- Color: Dark Umber
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- 15.6″ diagonal High Definition LED HP Brightview Display (1366×768)
- AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Accelerated Processor (2.3GHz/1.4GHz, 4MB L2 Cache)
- AMD Radeon HD 6520G Discrete-Class Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
- FREE Upgrade to 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
- 640GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- Ports: 2x USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, HDMI, VGA
- 6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (standard) – Up to 5.5 hours of battery life
- FREE Upgrade to Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
- HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
- 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth(R)
- Standard Keyboard
The HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition series laptop in all its configurations is available on HP.com now. You should expect more AMD Llano APU powered laptops from many PC vendors but for now the dv6z is one of the limited options available at the moment.
Here are some other cheaper options if you want an AMD Llano APU powered quad-core laptop right now:
Gateway NV55S02u -15.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) LED back-lit, AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M, AMD Radeon HD 6520G graphics, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium - $599.99 from Office Depot
Toshiba Satellite L755D-S5204 – 15.6-inch HD (1366 x 768) LED back-lit, AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M, AMD Radeon HD 6520G graphics, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 640GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium – $548.00 from Walmart
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2 Responses to “HP Pavilion dv6z Quad Edition Laptop Released With AMD Llano APUs, $649.99 For Quad Core”
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CRM
05. Jul, 2011
Its Looks so Nice and their new revolutionary i want buy it and i want to use for my personal use.
Thanks for post..
MonopolistEra
25. Jul, 2011
I hope we can find these laptops in retail outlets?
Last year, Intel was caught bribing manufacturers BILLIONS of dollars to not make AMD products. For example, Dell was secretly paid 6-billion dollars to not make any AMD computers!
Intel also paid HP to make no more than 5% of their computers using AMD processors – and to make only low end computers with AMD chips!
European antitrust folks raided MediaMarkt’s offices and discovered that the largest European retailer was getting bribed not to stock AMD computers!
So… These laptops look pretty cool, but I am doubtful that we’ll see these in stores:(