HP Pavilion

HP Pavilion
Developer	Hewlett-Packard (1995–2015) HP Inc. (2015–present)
Manufacturer	HP Inc.
Type	Laptop, desktop computer
Release date	1995; 29 years ago
Operating system	Windows
CPU	AMD APU, AMD Ryzen, AMD Athlon 64/X2/II, Intel Core i3/i5/i7
Graphics	AMD Radeon, NVIDIA GeForce, Intel Iris
Marketing target	Consumer/Home purpose
Related	HP Envy

HP Pavilion is a line of consumer-oriented laptop and desktop computers produced by HP Inc. Introduced in 1995, HP has used the name for both desktops and laptops in its home and home office product range. The Pavilion mainly competes against computers such as Acer's Aspire, Dell's Inspiron and XPS, Lenovo's IdeaPad, Samsung's Sens, and Toshiba's Satellite.

When Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq in 2002, it took over Compaq's existing naming rights agreement, and so sold both HP- and Compaq-branded machines, until 2013.

History

In 1995, HP introduced the Pavilion PC, an IBM-compatible computer of the desktop type, which marked the company's introduction into the home-computing market. Dave Packard published The HP Way, a book that chronicled the rise of Hewlett-Packard and gave consumers insight into its business practices, culture, and management style. HP also produced a low-cost, high-speed infrared transceiver that allowed wireless data exchange in a range of portable computing applications; these included telephones, computers, printers, cash registers, automatic teller machines, and digital cameras.^[1]

In May 2024, HP announced that the Pavilion name will be retired as part of a streamlining of brands, with new consumer computers being released under the "Omni" branding, with OmniBook, OmniStudio and OmniDesk brandings. This change also marked the return of the OmniBook brand to HP after being discontinued in 2002 as part of the merger with Compaq that same year.^[2]

The first HP Pavilion PC

The HP Pavilion 5030, released in 1995 as the first computer in the HP Pavilion line, was technically HP's second multimedia PC designed specifically for the home market. The first was called the HP Multimedia PC; model numbers were 6100, 6140S, and 6170S. The Pavilion went on to become a popular model. Specifications included a quad-speed CD-ROM drive, Altec Lansing speakers, software for online service access, and came shipped with Windows 95. This entry-level model featured a 75 MHz Intel Pentium processor, 8 MB RAM, and an 850 MB hard drive.^[3]

Desktops

HP offers about 30 customizable desktops; of these, 5 are standard HP Pavilion, 4 are Slimline, 6 are High Performance Edition (HPE), 5 are "Phoenix" HPE Gaming editions*, 5 are Touchsmart, and 5 are All-In-One.

Current desktop models

HP Pavilion: p7m, p7z, p7t, p7xt, p7qe
HP Pavilion Slimline: s5m, s5t, s5z, s5xt
HP Pavilion HPE (High Performance Edition): h8m, h8t, h8z, h8xt, h8qe, h8se
HP Pavilion HPE (High Performance Edition) Phoenix (Gaming): h9-1100z, h9-1120t, h9-1150t, h9-1170t, h9-1135, h9-1200ex *(not customizable)
HP Pavilion Wave: 600t
HP Touchsmart PC: 310z, 610z, 610t, 610xt, 610 Quad
HP Omni Series (All-In-One): 100z, 100t, 200t, 200xt, 200 Quad

Past desktop models

(Note that this is not a complete list, but a list of more recent models.)

HP Pavilion: a255c, a445c, a1740n, a6560t, a6560z, a6510t, a6500z, a6460t, a6450z, a6410t, a6400z, a6250z, a6250t, a6210z, a6205t, a6200t, a6600z, a6608f, a6610t, ?6617?, a6660t, a6660z, a6700z, a6750f, p6300z, p6310t, p6350z, p6370t, p6380t, a705w,

a000 series - Panther / Jaguar

a1000 series - Mojave / Gobi

a6000 / p6000 series - Venus / Venus2

HP Pavilion Slimline: s3100n, s3200t, s3200z, s3400t, s3400z, s3500t, s3500z, s3600f, s3600t, s3600z, s3700f, s3700z, s3710t, s3750t, s5305z, s5310t, s5350z, s5370t, s5380t, s5730f, s7350n
HP Pavilion Media Center: a1330n, a1410n, a1600n, m7580n(XP Only), m8300, m8100y, m8200n, t000,
HP Pavilion Elite/HPE: m9350f, m9300t, m9300z, m9200t, m9200z, m9000t, m9000z, d5000z, d5000t, d5100t, m9400t, m9400z, d5200t, e9300z, HPE 110t, HPE 150t, HPE 170t, HPE 180t, HPE 190t
HP Pavilion Ultimate: d4999t, d4999z
HP Touchsmart: iq770t, iq772t, IQ504t, IQ506t, IQ804t, 300z, 600t, 600xt, 600 Quad
HP Pavilion All In One/Omni: 23SE, MS220z, 200t

Model number suffixes

The suffix on the model number, if present, indicates special information such as processor or country. The following chart describes each suffix.

f: ? the sticker on the case refers to image media.
t: Intel processor
z: AMD processor
qe: Quad Edition
sb: Small Business Series
se: Special Edition
y: CTO – Configure To Order

Two-letter country codes such as

us: United States
ca: Canada
br: Brazil
la: Latin America
ap: Asian Pacific
au/ax/tu/tx: Asia/Australia
ea/ec/ee/eo/(e plus a letter): Eastern & Western Europe
sa/sc/se/so/(s plus a letter): Eastern & Western Europe
na/nc/ne/no/(n plus a letter): Eastern & Western Europe
qr: Russia

etc.

Overheating problems

The HP Pavilion Slimline desktops are housed in small form factor cases. They can become very hot because of their small size.^[4]

Notebooks

The HP Pavilion laptops are customizable in the US only. A variety of different models with different setups are available in other countries. Up until 2013, HP was producing some models of the Pavilion with Compaq Presario branding.

Previous notebook models

20.1 inch: HDX9000
18.4 inch: HDX18t / dv8t
17.0 inch: dv7 / g70t / dv9000 / dv8000 / zd8000 / zd7000
16.0 inch: HP G60-445DX
15.6 inch: Compaq Presario (CQ60 / CQ62z), dv6t / dv6z / dv6zae (Artist Edition 2) / G60t
15.4 inch: dv5 / dv6000 / dv5000 / dv4000 / zv6000 / zv5000 / zx5000 / ze5000 / ze4000 / zt3000
15.0 inch: ze2000 / ze1000 / zt1000 / ze5170
14.3 inch: dv1658
14.1 inch: dv4z / dv2000 series / dv1000 series
13.3 inch: dv3t / dv3z / dv3500t
12.1 inch: dv2z; Tablet PC: tx series / TouchSmart tx2z
17.3 inch: ENVY 17 3D / ENVY 17 / dv7t / G72t / g7
15.6 inch: HDX16t / G62t / G62m / g6 / m6 / 15-p077tx / 15-p001tx / 15-ck069tx 15-p005x / 15-p073tx / 15-p045tx / 15-p085tx / 15-r022tx / 15-r014tx / 15-r022tx / 15-d103tx / 15-p207tx / 15-p209tx / 15-p210tx / 15-p029tx / 15-p028tx / 15-p027tx / 15-f233wm / 15-n096sa / 15-ab165us / 15-cc5xx
14.5 inch: ENVY 14
14.1 inch: dv4tse / dv4t
14.0 inch: dm4t / dm4x / G4t
13.3 inch: dm3t / Voodoo Envy 133
12.1 inch: tm2t
11.6 inch: dm1z
10.1 inch: HP Pavilion x2 Detachable (1280 x 800 touchscreen)

The HP Pavilion x2 is a long-running family of devices; there are dozens of variants, across many generations of Intel processors.

HP Mini

10.1 inch: HP Mini 1000 (Mi / XP / Mobile Broadband Wireless / Vivienne Tam) / HP Mini 210 / HP Mini 110 (Mi / XP)
8.9 inch: HP Mini 1000 (Mi / XP / Mobile Broadband Wireless)

Model number suffixes

The two or three letter suffix on the model number indicates special information like country or language (dv----xx). The following chart describes each suffix.

t: Intel processor
z: AMD processor
ae: Artist Edition ("Artist Edition" imprint)
bw: Broadband Wireless series
sb: Small Business series
se: Special Edition ("Intensity" dv4tse, "Renewal" dv5tse; "Special Edition" imprint)
qe: Quad Edition (special quad-core processor, e.g. dv7tqe-6100 CTO with Intel i7)

The following suffixes corresponds to the region where the notebook is sold.

us: United States
ca: Canada
la: Latin America
br: Brazil
ea / ee / [e + other letter]: Europe / Middle East
eo / so / no: Scandinavia
ec / sc / nc: Czech Republic and Slovakia
au / ax: Asia / Australia - AMD processor (AU = AMD + UMA graphics; AX = AMD + discrete graphics)
tu / tx: Asia / Australia - Intel processor (TU = Intel + UMA; TX = Intel + discrete)
ap: Asia Pacific

Other suffixes include nr, cl, and wm.

nr: no rebate
cl: club model, available only through discount shopping clubs such as Costco and Sam's Club
wm: Walmart model
dx: Best Buy model
od: Office Depot model
st: Staples model

The HP Pavilion HDX is only sold with Intel processors, but does not end with the suffix "t"; it has no suffix.

The HP Pavilion TX tablet PC series was sold with AMD processors only, but they still ended with the suffix "z".

HP Imprint

The HP Imprint notebook finish is a high-gloss developed in cooperation with Nissha Printing Co. (Japan). This was used for the following models:

HP Imprint

Wave: dv9000 / dv6000 / dv2000 / tx1000
Digi Code: Compaq Presario v3000
Trace: Compaq Presario v6700TX
Radiance: dv9700 / dv9500 / dv6700 / dv6500 / dv2700 / dv2500
Influx: dv6700tse / dv6500tse / dv2842se
Dragon: HDX9000
Verve: dv2700tse
Echo: tx2000z / tx2500z
Thrive: dv6800tse
Artist Edition: dv2800tae / dv2890nr / dv2990nr

HP Imprint 2

Meshy: dv7 / dv6 / dv5 / dv4 / dv3000
Unity: Compaq Presario CQ20
Glossy Black Finish: Compaq Presario (CQ70 / CQ50 / CQ40)
Fluid: HDX18t / HDX16t
Intensity: dv4tse
Renewal: dv5tse
Intersect: dv7 / dv5 / dv4 / dv3500 / dv3
Swirl: HP Mini 1000 (Mi / XP / Mobile Broadband Wireless)
Peony: HP Mini 1000 (Vivienne Tam)
Reaction: HP TouchSmart tx2z
Moonlight: dv7 / dv4 / dv2z / dv6
Espresso: dv7 / dv4 / dv2z / dv6

Notebook artwork competitions

HP held a contest in conjunction with MTV to help design a special edition HP notebook case artwork. The contest went from September 5, 2007, to October 17, 2007, and over 8,500 designs from 112 countries were submitted. "Asian Odyssey" by João Oliveira of Porto, Portugal, was chosen as the winner of the competition and featured on the HP dv2800tae Series Notebook.^[5]^[6] In another competition, "Engine Room," a design by Hisako Sakihama, from Japan was chosen to appear on a HP notebook.^[7]

Specialized features

HP developed Linux-based software which could be booted quickly (in ~12 seconds) to play music or DVDs called QuickPlay for the dv series of notebooks. QuickPlay also incorporated multimedia features, such as pause playback from the included remote control, within Windows. Later versions that shipped with Vista did not have the boot option but retained the multimedia features.^[8]

QuickPlay software has been discontinued by HP, being replaced with HP MediaSmart Software that was installed on all HP desktops and notebooks from 2009 onward.

Overheating issues

Many notebook owners experience hardware failure in various Pavilion models due to overheating. The first symptom is usually a disappearing Wi-Fi, followed by failure of the graphics system and booting problems. HP does acknowledge this as a "hardware issue with certain HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000" notebooks, which is eligible for free repair.^[9] Other users recommend a resoldering of the Nvidia GPU on the motherboard due to the overheating causing the solder on the built-in GPU to liquify.

In 2009, HP had to recall over 70,000 batteries that were defective as a result of overheating.^[10]

References

^ "HP timeline — 1990s". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
^ Harding, Scharon (2024-05-20). "HP resurrects '90s OmniBook branding, kills Spectre, Dragonfly". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
^ "HP Pavilion 5030, 1995". hp.com. Retrieved 2007-03-21.
^ Lorch, J.R.; Smith, A.J. (June 1998). "Software strategies for portable computer energy management". IEEE Personal Communications. 5 (3): 60–73. doi:10.1109/98.683740. ISSN 1070-9916. S2CID 3240421.
^ "Take Action. Make Art". www.mtv-tama.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
^ "HP, MTV Announce Winner of "Take Action. Make Art." Global Notebook PC Design Competition". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
^ "HP, AMD and MTV Announce Winner of "Engine Room" Notebook Design Contest". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
^ "HP Notebook PCs - Installing and Updating QuickPlay/DVD Play 3.x". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12.
^ "HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement". Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2010-06-03.
^ Ogg, Erica (2009-05-14). "HP laptop batteries recalled for overheating". CNET. Archived from the original on 2012-03-01.

External links

HP corporate homepage

[1] "HP timeline — 1990s". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2007-03-21.

[2] Harding, Scharon (2024-05-20). "HP resurrects '90s OmniBook branding, kills Spectre, Dragonfly". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2024-05-23.

[3] "HP Pavilion 5030, 1995". hp.com. Retrieved 2007-03-21.

[4] Lorch, J.R.; Smith, A.J. (June 1998). "Software strategies for portable computer energy management". IEEE Personal Communications. 5 (3): 60–73. doi:10.1109/98.683740. ISSN 1070-9916. S2CID 3240421.

[5] "Take Action. Make Art". www.mtv-tama.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2008-07-23.

[6] "HP, MTV Announce Winner of "Take Action. Make Art." Global Notebook PC Design Competition". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-07-23.

[7] "HP, AMD and MTV Announce Winner of "Engine Room" Notebook Design Contest". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-02-07.

[8] "HP Notebook PCs - Installing and Updating QuickPlay/DVD Play 3.x". hp.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12.

[9] "HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement". Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2010-06-03.

[10] Ogg, Erica (2009-05-14). "HP laptop batteries recalled for overheating". CNET. Archived from the original on 2012-03-01.

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