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The HP Pavilion 7370V ($3,550 street) is the high-end entry in Hewlett-Packard's Pavilion line of home PCs, and it is designed for gaming, imaging, and other recreational purposes. The Pavilion line also includes the Family Fun, the Imaging Enthusiast, and the Home Theater, most of which HP will be building around Pentium MMX processors.
The Pavilion performed well, posting all average benchmark test scores in the home PC category except for its above-average CD-ROM WinMark score. The system's MMX applications test scores were also average.
Two of the Pavilion's software titles, MechWarrior 2 and Whiplash, work well with its graphics subsystem: an integrated S3 ViRGE chip set aided by an Orchid Righteous 3D daughterboard with the 3Dfx Interactive VooDoo chip set. The unit also ships with a Logitech game pad, the ThunderPad.
One hardware highlight is HP's new One-Touch Multimedia Keyboard, which has volume, mute, Internet, phone, voice mail, suspend, and CD player controls. Other features include a 16X GoldStar CD-ROM drive, a 17-inch HP monitor, integrated Yamaha sound, two Altec Lansing speakers, a subwoofer, and a Digitan 33.6/14.4-Kbps DSVD modem with full-duplex speakerphone and voice mail.
The HP Pavilion 7370V is the quintessential MMX system, designed specifically for high-power gamers and other entertainment users.
- Cade Metz
HP Pavilion 7370V. Street price: $3,550. Hewlett-Packard Co., Cupertino, CA; 800-724-6631, 810-357-1219; fax, 810-357-1317; www.hp.com/info/pchome1.
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