Not only did HP design its desktop replacement notebook in true desktop style—with a 3.2-GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, a 17-inch LCD, and a weight of 9.3 pounds—but it also kept multimedia in mind.
The HP Pavilion zd7000, our Editors' Choice, came in first on our multimedia tests and on 3DMark03, undoubtedly thanks to its nVidia GeForce FX Go 5600 card with 128MB of local graphics memory. (All the other systems here had 64MB of graphics memory.)
The notebook's 17-inch wide-screen LCD is a plus for watching movies or editing photos or video. And the DVD drive lets you burn your home movies. Just be sure to do all this while plugged in; the battery life won't let you compute for long untethered.
MULTIMEDIA
Music:
You can rip your albums to the hard drive and burn MP3 files to standard audio CDs. MusicMatch Jukebox creates and stores playlists of your favorite music. The built-in Harman Kardon speakers make for a pleasant listening experience.
Photos: 
Imaging enthusiasts will really like HP Image Zone. Though not as advanced as some titles, Image Zone has the common functions most users need, like the ability to crop photos and adjust for brightness and color correction. Photo albums intuitively organize picture collections.
Video:
Creating DVD videos from family movies is a snap. The DVD drive, a FireWire port, and Roxio's Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 make it easy to capture and render footage to DVD– recordable media. But the 60GB hard drive will fill up fast.
Gaming:
Equipped with an nVidia GeForce FX Go 5600 graphics adapter with 128MB of memory, as well as a wide screen, this is the best notebook we saw for gaming—and the 3DMark03 score proves our point.
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