HP Pavilion ZE1115 Notebook (1.1GHz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20GB Hard Drive)

by HP

Product Details

Product Manual [768kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 12.6 x 1.3 inches ; 15 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000065UPR
• Item model number: F3414H#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,509 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2002

Product Description

This laptop from HP features a DVD drive that lets you catch a movie anytime, anywhere. You'll love the view thanks to the 14.1M-^T XGA TFT display. And if you really do have some work to get done it features a 1.1GHz AMD Duron processor, 256MB PC-133 SDRAM memory, and 20GB hard drive that will help you knock your work out in a hurry. Then you can get back to your movies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid performance, XP advantages, poor audio, July 26, 2002

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N. Caine (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion ZE1115 Notebook (1.1GHz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

This has been a good work performer for me. The energy-saving Duron stays at 550mhz most of the time, thus keeping the notebook cool, and doubles in speed whenever an application could benefit from it. The bundled softare is not too intrusive (like MS Works) and easy to remove. It's completely XP compatible, so it's very stable, boots and shuts down very quickly, and is easy to update and operate. The DVD drive does flawless DAE, which is an important feature to me. The Musicmatch utility program is surprisingly good at doing an automated conversion of cd's to mp3's with all the correct id3 tags, all in just a couple of keystrokes. The "bad" is that this is not a computer for gaming. The video is "integrated" so it's fine for 2d applications, but not for 3d gaming. The sound is the major disappointment in that the computer is incapable of playing any music (whether from mp3 or in a game) without stuttering. This is true even if I turn off every memory resident program: an expert told me that this occurs from a hardware conflict, but the chip is a combined modem and sound chip, and so they share an interrupt with no way to change this. In addition to this problem, the built in speakers sound lousy, and the volume scale is poorly designed, so a 'O' out of 16 is mute, but a '1' out of 16 is already fairly loud. Still, the computer has been otherwise a solid performer for eight months.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Machine, September 17, 2007

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TwEbErIs "TwEbErIs" (WA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Pavilion ZE1115 Notebook (1.1GHz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

Half of the problems with any computer are user related. I obtained this laptop after the previous owner thrashed it. She had a 65w adapter on a min 75w system. Fried the HDD & battery. She broke the clip in the cd-rom drive and broke the DC Jack.

After I obtained it, I bought the proper OEM 75w adapter, changed the optical drive to a CD-RW/DVD-Rom combo drive, doubled the RAM, added a new 80GB HDD, and replaced the thermal compound with Artic Silver 5.

The DC jack is EASILY replaced. Three solder points and its released. I bought an OEM jack for $2 and this machine has been glorius ever since. $145 in parts and upgrades and this machine easily runs vista beautifully however it runs XP Professional now and has run three distrobutions of linux. The linux setup out of the box detected all hardware properly and works great (if you are a stage 5 user).

The RAM is expandable to 1GB, optical can upgrade to a DVD Burner and the Processor using AMD's CPU_ID program is capable of 1.4GHz.

Don't let someone else's mishandling of the laptop sway you from buying a great piece of equipment. A laptop isn't indestructible nor will they ever be.

I love mine, and take it with me everywhere!

1.0 out of 5 stars Power adapter stinks, October 28, 2005

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Thomas Fritz "Unknown Ghost" (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion ZE1115 Notebook (1.1GHz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20GB Hard Drive) (Personal Computers)

This unit suffers from the probles ALL HP notebooks.

The reciever which you connect the power to is a peace of junk.

It is made from brittle plastic designed to break if it comes under too much stress.

Good idea, but stupid implementation!

You have to replace the WHOLE system board if it breaks! HP wants $600 for a new system board! When I told HP parts that, they said "Oh let me transfer you to sales!"

Yea right!

I took it to a local shop for someone to replace the broken reciever and they told me that HP is the worst about the power recievers!

Never buy an HP! <delete><delete><delete><delete> Always buy an HP! Want to buy mine? Cheap?