HP Pavilion TX2Z

Touchscreen Convertible Tablet

This touchscreen laptop offers a lightweight and instant  access experience for all of your work and play needs. Weighing just 4.65 pounds and offering a 12.1 inch screen with quick and easy access to information, entertainment and social networks, it’s a compact powerhouse.

The HP Pavilion tx2z is a tablet PC, which means its screen swivels and folds down flat so you can write on it with a special stylus. It uses innovative multitouch technology, so you can use more than one finger on the touchscreen to resize photos, sort through music albums and more.

The notebook is also equipped with MediaSmart, which offers an easy solution to view and edit photos, a spacious hard drive for storing files, a dedicated video card for optimal graphics, and is a worthy candidate for your home or office.

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HP TouchSmart tx2z Pricing and Configuration

HPDirect.com is currently offering the entry-level base HP TouchSmart tx2z at just $799.99. The base model for this touchscreen laptop includes:

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor (Speed of 2.2GHz)
• 2GB System Memory
• 250GB Hard Drive
• ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
• Integrated webcam

HP’s recommended configuration of the HP TouchSmart tx2z costs $919.99.  For $120 more, you’ll raise the storing capacity of your hard drive and increase your  machine’s memory for speedier performance:

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor (Speed of 2.3GHz)
• 4GB System Memory
• Upgrade to 320GB  from 250GB Hard Drive
• ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics

Upgrades to Consider: HP’s recommendations really power up the machine, however, advanced users may want to upgrade to the following features:

• AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor ZM-87: Opting for a higher quality processor increases the speed of your machine and makes all your programs run faster.
• 500 GB Hard Drive: Users who plan on keeping a lot of movies or other media files on their notebook may want to increase the size of their hard drive for more storage space.

HP Pavilion TX2Z Reviews

Wired.com likes the notebook’s touchscreen features.

TabletPCReview calls it “the first affordable consumer notebook with a multi-touch screen.”

CNET rates the HP TX2Z 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Design

The TX2Z has a solid build- it can function as both a regular notebook and a touchscreen notebook because of a rotating screen.

The machine has an appealing dark grey imprint, and weighing in at less than 5 pounds, is extremely compact and very easy to carry.

Connectivity

Your HP Pavilion TX2Z can include a Wireless-G or Wireless-N card, and if you have a Bluetooth headset or have a phone that support Bluetooth, you can add Bluetooth to your card so that you connect the devices wirelessly to your machine. The notebook is also equipped with an ethernet port for those occasions when there isn’t a network in the area.

The HP Pavilion series offers all the standard ports that you have come to expect from a powerful workhorse notebook, and the TX2Z is no exception. It comes with a 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader, perfect for transferring media from your camera or other accessory to your laptop. It’s also equipped with 3 USB  ports which making connecting all your extra gadgets a snap.