HP puts dv8 laptop with 18.4″ screen and Core i7 on its site

The American hardware manufacturer HP has put a multimedia notebook with an 18.4 “screen and a Core i7 processor on its website. The Pavilion dv8 comes with a Blu-ray drive and 4GB of memory.

In recent months, various rumors have surfaced that HP would release a dv8 with Intel Core i7 and the manufacturer confirms this by now listing the model on its site. present. The Pavilion dv8 is an entertainment PC according to HP. The model has an 18.4″ screen with a resolution of 1920×1080. The cpu is the Core i7 720QM that runs at 1.6GHz and the memory is 4GB as standard, but can be expanded to 8GB. HP builds two hard drives of each 320GB and it rotates at 7200rpm Despite being a multimedia device, playing demanding 3D games probably won’t work as the Nvidia GeForce GT 230M, which can handle 1GB, does the graphics work and this is by no means the fastest mobile gpu from nvidia.

Blu-ray discs can be played and the necessary optical drive is combined with a super multi DVD drive. The sound is reproduced by Altec Lansing speakers with an integrated subwoofer and support for Dolby Home Theater is present. In addition to the four USB ports, there is a hybrid USB-ESATA interface that is powered by the USB connection. The laptop also contains a 5-in-1 card reader, a VGA port, an HDMI connector and an expresscard/54 slot. The use of a remote control is enabled by an infrared port and although it is not listed in the specifications, another page that the dv8 also has an integrated TV tuner. HP equips the device with an eight-cell battery of unknown capacity and the weight is 4 kilograms. The new Pavilion offspring will be delivered with Windows 7, so it is expected that it will be available at the end of October: by then there will also be more clarity about the price.