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Overview

Basic Elements. A comfortable fit for any budget, HP 550 Notebook PC helps keep you connected and productive so your office goes with you.

Features

Featuring genuine Windows for a familiar and intuitive environment

Highly portable design. With a 15.4-inch HP BrightView diagonal widescreen display, a fresh new look and starting weight of only 2.49 kg, the HP 550 is the perfect business partner.

Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Business with downgrade to Windows XP Professional custom installed, Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 32-bit, FreeDOS, RedFlag Linux.

Built to protect. Device Access Manager for HP ProtectTools helps defend your network, your applications, and your data by controlling ports and removable storage devices on your system to prevent unauthorized users from removing your data.

Stay connected. WLAN lets you send and receive e-mails or access the Internet – at work, at home and at your favorite hotspots; while Bluetooth® technology provides wireless connectivity between Bluetooth devices such as printers, mice and headsets.

Built to last. HP 3D DriveGuard uses a three-axis accelerometer that detects sudden movement and initiates protective action to help protect your notebook’s hard drive against bumps or drops so your critical data is protected while on the move.



Certain Windows Vista product features require advanced or additional hardware. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/hardwarereqs.mspx and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx for details. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features of Windows Vista will run on your computer. To download the tool, visit http://www.windowsvista.com/upgradeadvisor

HP is committed to providing our customers with information about the chemical substances in our products as needed to comply with legal requirements such as REACH (Regulation EC No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and the Council). A chemical information report for this product can be found at: www.hp.com/go/reach.





* Not all Windows Vista™ features are available for use on all Windows Vista Capable PCs. All Windows Vista Capable PCs will run the core experiences of Windows Vista, such as innovations in organizing and finding information, security, and reliability. Some features available in premium editions of Windows Vista -- like the new Windows® Aero™ user interface -- require advanced or additional hardware. Check http://www.windowsvista.com/getready for details.

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