- The Pavilion a650y is a discontinued desktop PC manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. It was a Build-to-Order PC, wherein the consumer could choose from a wide range of components based upon their budget as well as their desired use of the PC. While the computer could be upgraded, it does have a set of standard features.
- The Pavilion a650y is a micro-ATX form-factor desktop PC. Its tower is 15.75 inches high by 7.5 inches wide by 15.75 inches deep. Included with the tower is an HP keyboard, an HP mouse, as well as Harman-Kardon speakers.
The PC does not come standard with a monitor. Offered monitors include a 17-inch CRT, a 17-inch flat screen, a 15-inch flat panel, a 19-inch flat panel, and a 23-inch flat panel.
The speakers could be replaced with Harmon-Kardon 2-Piece Active speakers with a subwoofer, Altec-Lansing VS2121 2.1 speakers, Altec-Lansing VS3151 5.1 speakers, Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers, and Klipsch ProMedia Ultra THX Certified 5.1 speakers.
The keyboard and mouse could be replaced by an HP Internet keyboard and HP Scroller mouse, or an HP Wireless Internet keyboard and a wireless optical mouse. - The Pavilion a650y utilizes an Intel Pentium 4 CPU operating at 2.8 gigahertz as its baseline processor. Users could choose to replace this unit with other Pentium 4 CPUs including the 3.0-gigahertz model, the 3.2-gigahertz model, and the 3.4-gigahertz model. All of these CPUs posses a one-megabyte L2 cache.
The Pavilion a650y came standard with 512 megabytes of of PC-3200 DDR RAM. Non-standard options for memory include 256 megabytes and one gigabyte. - The Pavilion a650y utilizes an nVidia GeForceFX 5100 graphics card with 64 megabytes of onboard DDR memory. This card also has a TV-Out port. Replacement options for this card include the 128-megabyte nVidia GeForceFX 5200XT, the 256-megabyte nVidia GeForceFX 5500, and the 256-megabyte ATi Radeon 9800.
The Pavilion a650y utilizes an integrated sound card with 5.1 support upgradeable to the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (See Reference 1). - The Pavilion a650y comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive. This could be replaced with a large number of options, from 200- and 250-gigabyte Ultra DMA drives, to 80-, 160-, and 320-gigabyte RAID drives.
The PC came with a 1.44-megabyte floppy drive. Standard on the PC was a 16X DVD drive as well as an 8X DVD+RW/+R and CD-RW combination drive. These could be swapped with a 48X CD-ROM drive, a 48X HP CD-Writer drive, a 48X CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive, and an 8X DVD+RW/+R drive in the place of the first standard drive. The second standard drive could be replaced with a 48X CD-ROM drive, a 16X DVD-ROM drive, or a 48X HP CD-Writer drive. - The Pavilion a650y is a highly customizable PC. Due to the large number of options available, the user can configure the PC to their desires. The PC also has two USB ports, a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, a line-in port, a headphone port, and a microphone port on the front panel. The back panel contains four USB ports, another FireWire port, a parallel port, a serial port, a VGA port, as well as additional audio ports.
- The Pavilion a650y came configured with the Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system. This could be upgraded to the Professional Edition. Along with this, the PC included a software suite with Microsoft Works 7.0, Money 2004, MSN Encarta Plus, HP Image Zone Plus, Symantec Norton Antivirus 2004, iTunes, RecordNow!, InterVideo WinDVD Se, InterVideo WinDVD Creator, RealOne Player, Windows MovieMaker 2.0, Intuit Quicken New User's Edition 2004, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Additional software could also be ordered with the system. These applications included Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003, Norton Internet Security 2004, Quickbooks Basic 2004, and Quickbooks Pro 2004.
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