HP TouchSmart IQ770 Personal Desktop. The HP TouchSmart PC is a full featured desktop PC with an integrated touch enabled 19 Inch diagonal widescreen BrightView LCD. The product introduces the touch experience to desktop computing and provides fast, easy access to information, communication, and entertainment. It is designed to fit wherever life happens, in the kitchen, family room, or living room. With one touch you can check the weather, check your email, or watch your favorite show. It is your life at your fingertips. The HP TouchSmart PC also provides one touch entertainment options, including digital photos, radio, TV, movies, digital music, and the Web. Enjoy dazzling images on the 19 Inch diagonal widescreen BrightView LCD. Pre installed security software helps protect you from viruses, spam, spyware, and other online threats, right out of the box.
The highly anticipated release of the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system marks the start of a new era in computing comfort and confidence for consumers. In addition to innovations in security, reliability, and organizing and finding information, users will find that the the HP TouchSmart PC includes all the necessary hardware to enjoy the full Windows Vista Home Premium experience, including the new Windows Aero user interface and Flip 3D. These intuitive tools and impressive graphics make personal computing more manageable and visually appealing. The space saving, clutter free design of the HP TouchSmart PC fits almost anywhere in your home. Its keyboard and mouse are wireless. Its display is integrated with the PC base. Simply connect a few cables power, network, and cable TV and your HP TouchSmart PC is eady to use.
Processor: The 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-52 processor offers a dual-core architecture, which delivers additional computing resources to help expand your PC's capabilities by providing higher throughput and simultaneous computing--increasing your performance by up to 80 percent. You'll be able to perform multiple tasks such as digital rendering and gaming all while running virus scan or other background tasks seamlessly thanks to the innovative Direct Connect Architecture. And it's designed to handle simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing with no degradation in performance.
You'll enjoy long battery life thanks to the AMD PowerNow! power management technology, which delivers performance on demand and can extend system battery life up to 65 percent. And the AMD Digital Media XPress technology delivers stellar multimedia performance and playback on digital entertainment such as games, streaming video and audio, DVDs, and music. Each processing core has a 512 KB L2 cache (for a 1 MB total), and this processor can deliver up to a 1600 MHz system bus for lightning quick computing reflexes. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.
Hard Drive: The extra-large 320 GB Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive (7200 RPM) offers a wealth of storage space, perfect for storing a vast multimedia collection or for editing digital video. This SATA hard drive also quickens the pace with a higher speed transfer of data--akin to FireWire and USB 2.0. A built-in drive bay fits an optional HP Personal Media Drive (PMD), for up to 500 GB of additional storage that you can carry away with you when you go (PMD not included).
Memory: The 2 GB of installed RAM (PC4200, 2 x 1 GB, 533 MHz) is a start, but you'll want to add more RAM to handle today's demanding multimedia and gaming software. This desktop has a 4 GB maximum RAM capacity (4 x 1 GB), perfect for high-def video and 3-D gaming.