Summer has only just started for most students. Some students only got out of school this week. Despite that HP is already announced its back to school line up. Back to school isn’t something that students will want to think about right now, but most parents are already counting the days.

Among the offerings is the HP Pavilion dv6z Artist Edition notebook. The machine starts at $949 and includes all the features found in the dv6z plus and the machine sports the design that won the HP MTV notebook design contest.

The machine has a 16-inch LCD and uses AMD processors with up to 500GB of storage and up to 8GB of RAM. The Artist Edition comes with a software suite including Video Studio X2, Corel painter Sketchpad and Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo x2. Magix Music Maker 14 is also included with the machine. The PC will ship on June 10.

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