HP Ultra Dual Core Entertainment Notebook with 17.3″ LCD, Blu-Ray and HDMIHP Ultra Dual Core Entertainment Notebook with 17.3″ LCD, Blu-Ray and HDMI

. As far as I’m concerned, you can take Avatar, Titanic, and The Terminator and sink them in an alien steamship from the future. Only Piranha II: The Spawning fully explores Cameron’s gift for sensitive, authentic portrayal of murderous mutant sea life.

Under normal circumstances, I’d be on this HP 17” Notebook like a flying piranha on an expendable African-American character in the first act. Windows 7 pre-loaded! 500GB hard drive! 17” screen (that doesn’t support 1080p for some reason)! HDMI out (so you can hook it up to a 1080p TV)! A free workout lugging this 8-pound beast around! It’s exactly the kind of thing a scuba instructor, her scientist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband might enjoy toting to a fish fry on the beach – at least, until the inevitable gory ending.

But not me. Not until I can use this HP 17” Notebook’s Blu-Ray drive to watch Cameron’s meisterwerk in brine-splattered, fin-flapping high definition. I’ll tell you what: if I was a soulless time-travelling killing machine, my first mission would be to go back to 1981 and have a word with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty

Warranty: 90 Day HP

Features:

2.40 GHz AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core Mobile Processor M600 with 2 MB L2 Cache
17.3” Diagonal HD+ High-Definition HP LED BrightView Widescreen Display (1600×900)
4096 MB of RAM installed, upgradeable to 8192 MB
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics RS780M with up to 1918 MB video memory
500 GB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive
Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer with LightScribe
Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN, 802.11b/g WLAN, and 56k modem
Altec Lansing with SRS Premium Sound
101-key compatible with full size keyboard with integrated numeric keypad
Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
Dimensions: 16.2” (W) x 10.9” (D) x 1.37” (min H)/1.70” (max H)
Weight: 7.69lbs
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Operating System
8-Cell Lithium-Ion battery for up to 5 hours and 15 minutes run time
HP Webcam with integrated digital microphone

External Ports:

5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 4th port shared with eSATA
2 Headphone out
1 microphone-in
HDMI
1 VGA (15-pin)
eSATA + USB 2.0
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
1 notebook expansion port 3
1 Consumer IR (Remote Receiver)