Performance And Power
Newcastle Herald
Monday December 18, 2000
COMPAQ's newest and most powerful PC is packing a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 chip backed up by a whopping 75Gb hard drive.
Specs like that pretty much make the Presario 7000 the PC equivalent of a Ferrari ? it's even available with a snap-on red faceplate, although that will be in ruby, not Maranello.
The new machine comes with 128Mb of memory, a 32Mb graphics card with TV-out and a `digital video design centre'. Combine these with the vast amount of real estate on the hard drive and you have a formidable platform for movie editing and gaming.
`For consumers seeking the ultimate in performance and power, in particular PC gaming enthusiasts and users managing digital content, the Presario 7000 meets the highest expectations,' the director of Compaq's consumer division, Robert Balmer, said.
The Presario 7000 is the flagship of a range of desktops and notebooks launched last week by the world's largest PC manufacturer. The range includes the value-oriented 5000 family, which gives consumers the choice of Pentium III, Celeron or AMD processors.
Each model in the 5000 series has either a CD-ROM or a CD-RW drive, a 20Gb hard drive and 64Mb or 128Mb of memory.
A new range of four Presario notebooks includes the 1400, a silver-bodied `mobile entertainment centre', which can be restyled with snap-on livery.
The 1400 has a Pentium III 700 processor, a 15Gb hard drive and a 13.3-inch TFT screen. An `MP3 zone' allows MP3, CD and DVD output to be controlled when display is closed.
The Presario 7000 costs around $6400 without a monitor. A 5000 with a Pentium III/866 chip is priced at $2400 and a 5000 with a Celeron 633 processor is priced at $1400. Add $600 for a 17-inch screen. The 1400 notebook sells for $4500.
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