Around the same year the Pavilion was introduced, Dave Packard published The HP Way, a book that chronicled the rise of Hewlett-Packard and gave consumers insight into its business practices, culture, and management style.

After acquiring the company, HP then took over Compaq's existing naming rights agreement and so sold both HP- and Compaq-branded machines until 2013.

[5] This rebranding also marked the return of the OmniBook brand back to HP after originally being discontinued in 2002 as part of the merger with Compaq that same year.

Likewise, the HP Pavilion TX tablet PC series was only sold with AMD processors but still ended with the suffix "z".

It was first developed in May 2006 alongside a new line of HP Pavilion laptops, using an advanced molding technique commonly used in several products such as mobile phone cases, interiors for luxury automobiles, etc., providing a durable yet fashionable design.

The winner of the competition was João Oliveira of Porto, Portugal, who created a case design called "Asian Odyssey".

[11][12] In another competition, "Engine Room", a design made by Hisako Sakihama of Japan, was chosen to appear on another HP notebook.

[13] Several models of the dv series of Pavilion laptops featured HP's Linux-based software called QuickPlay, which can be booted upon startup to play music or DVDs.

Many laptop and notebook owners experienced hardware failure in various Pavilion models produced during the late 2000s due to overheating.

Symptoms of an overheating system include missing Wi-Fi, to the failure of the graphics card chipsets and booting problems.

[15] Other users have recommended a resoldering of the Nvidia GPUs on the motherboard due to the overheating causing the solder of the built-in GPU to liquify.