HP Pavilion ze4145 Laptop (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13 x 10.7 x 1.6 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006LHE9
• Item model number: F4893H#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 24, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Enjoying life’s luxuries is a pleasure in itself. Enjoying them at a discount is even better. If you’re shopping for a portable computer that effortlessly runs power-hungry productivity applications, hit DVD movie titles, and your favorite 3-D games--but you refuse to pay top-dollar--the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion ze4145 notebook PC belongs on your short list.

The ze4145’s AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor plows smoothly through any productivity application or entertainment title. At roughly 7 pounds and barely more than 1.5 inches thick, the ze4145 travels easily, and its 15-inch, active-matrix TFT display coupled with an ATI Mobility Radeon 4X AGP (including 3-D architecture for cutting-edge gaming) look good and, most importantly, make your software and movies look great. The ze4145’s DVD/CD-RW combination drive (24x/8x/8x, 8x DVD) lets you watch movies on DVD, listen to and make CDs, and rapidly back up data.

The ze4145 offers generous helpings of memory and storage. Its 40 GB hard drive sucks up large application and data files, and its 512 MB of DDR SDRAM--expandable to a maximum of 1,024 MB--lets you easily juggle several applications simultaneously. An integrated 10/100Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) connector makes networking easy. External ports include two USB inputs, a 25-pin parallel port, a serial connector, a PS/2 keyboard-mouse connector, and 15-pin VGA and S-video TV-out plugs. The notebook also includes a 56K integrated modem with an RJ-11 connector.

Bundled software includes Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, InterVideo WinDVD, the HP RecordNow CD-RW recording utility, ArcSoft Funhouse and PhotoImpression editing tools, Corel WordPerfect and Quattro Pro productivity applications, Quicken Financial Center by Intuit, Encyclopedia Britannica Ready Reference, Wild Tangent 3-D games, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, and Norton AntiVirus 2002 with a three-month live update.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Bang for the Buck!, November 5, 2002

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S. Burke "Showtime" (Aurora, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion ze4145 Laptop (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

After researching different laptops for a couple of weeks I found that the HP Pavilion ze4145 was the best!! After rebates the price was hard to beat. The AMD Athlon processor is a screemer! DVDs run as smooth as on TV, and the CDRW drive works without a hitch. I've used many a laptop in my day, but this was the one I bought. 512MB RAM, 40GB Hard drive and a 15" screen were all big selling points. This machine also runs a lot cooler than some I've used in the past. I would recommend the ze4145 to anyone looking for a powerful machine!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would recommend it highly...., December 8, 2002

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Christopher Mills (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion ze4145 Laptop (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

I needed a well rounded, powerful, notebook PC that would be as comfortable in our networked environment at our design firm, as it would be in my lap on the weekends. At the office, I easily run applications such as Dreamweaver, Fireworks, QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Powerpoint and even Photoshop. After work hours and on weekends, I can send my e-mails, work on our invoices in Quickbooks, or on rare occasions, relax and watch a DVD! This is really a well built notebook. Here are the PROS and CONS in my opinion.

PROS
- Very good screen size. The thinkpad and DELL users that I have come in contact with (including a former repair technician for DELL) have all been drooling over it.
- Large hard drive, lots of memory
- Fast processor, quiet hard drive
- Cool features, like the touchpad scrollbar, as well as a button that allows you to turn off the touchpad. The blue lights are quite attractive.
- The keyboard has a nice solid feel.

CONS
- Don't let the ALTEC LANSING name fool you - the speakers are nothing to write home about!
- No floppy drive. I hardly use them but I was disappointed not to get one in the box (rather it came with a $50 rebate offer on an external floppy drive.
- Microsoft XP Home - not a great idea if you are using the notebook at the office to administer or connect to network resources like a server. Everytime I connect to a network share, I have to enter a password - there is no option to save the password. Other little things in XP home are really a turn off... but that's a MICROSOFT issue.
- CDR Drive does not include burnproof technology, so close some applications before burning.
- HP has included some proprietory cdr drivers which will create cds that can only be read by other HP drives. This feature is enabled by default, but can easily be disabled. The standard drag and drop XP cdr capabilities work just fine! What was HP thinking?! The first CD i made became a coaster. But as I said, it can easily be disabled - thereafter it works fine!

Overall, especially given the price, I would recommend this laptop highly.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BANG FOR THE BUCK, November 30, 2002

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G. Weaver (akron, ohio, usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Pavilion ze4145 Laptop (1.53 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)

I have done alot of looking online and for the price you cannot beat this! This would cost you [$$]+ on a difrent system.I have had it for a week and have used it mostly as my main pc and gaming platform the games I play our power hungry flight simms Falcon 4.0, Flanker 2.5, etc... as you can see these games requir alot of power mem=512DDR, a AGP 32DDR (AGPX4 means you can upgrade latter) witch alot of other laptops dont give you that option even the DDR ram can be upgraded to 1gigDDR![.]
So if you dont want to spen [$$]then this is a name brand computer for you[.]
I now use this notbook as my main pc so you know it is powerful!