HP Pavilion dv3z – New AMD-Powered 13.3-Incher

Hewlett-Packard has released the HP Pavilion dv3z 13.3-inch notebook with AMD’s processors.

The dv3z will ship with the AMD Turion, Turion Ultra, or Athlon dual core CPUs, and includes the ATI Radeon HD 3200 integrated graphics. The laptop supports up to 8GB of DDR2 memory, and hard drives and solid state drives with SATA interface. The display has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels.

Other features include a web camera, stereo speakers, HDMI and VGA outputs, 802.11n wireless connection, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet LAN, two USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, 5-in-1 media card reader, eSATA port, and optional fingerprint reader.

The Pavilion dv3z weighs four pounds and runs Windows Vista OS.

The laptop starts at $799.99 at the HP online store.

This article was initially published on 01/03/2009 and updated with the new info on 01/12/2009.

[...] Unlike the AMD-powered dv3z, the Pavilion dv3t is based on Intel’s technology and features the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Intel GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics or the NVIDIA GeForce G 105M 512MB dedicated GPU, as well as up to 8G of DDR2 memory, up to 500GB of hard drive space, and a DVD burner or Blu-ray Combo optical drive. [...]