HP - Pavilion Desktop - 6GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive

I just bought this machine a few days ago. Everything has been working perfect so far. I feel that the processor/storage/graphics combination is a pretty good deal for the price. I upgraded to the full 8GB of ram, and it runs my applications perfectly (MS Office, Adobe CS5: Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, bridge, etc...). I haven't installed any graphic intense games yet, we'll see what happens. The only issue I have is that the keyboard and mouse both require USB slots. I have multiple external hard drives, webcam, printer, wacom tablet, etc... that all require USB, so those slots are valuable to me and i don't like wasting two on mouse/keyboard... but if that is the worst I have to deal with, than I'll be happy :)

I bought this to replace a 6 year old Acer desktop that had served its purpose. This HP is fantastic and I can't say enough about it. It's fast, it had a great price. I use my home computer for compressing movies, editing movies, a TiVo server, a PlayOn server, etc so my Acer couldn't keep up. This one can and then some. I can have all of this running at the same time and this computer never coughs, breaths heavy or stutters one bit. I choose this one over the $930 HP 6-core because I didn't need a blu-ray drive. Frankly you can buy another 2GB of RAM and a BD burner cheaper than the $300 price difference. Cons - None Pros - Fast, Windows 7 does great on it, plenty of RAM, tons of hard-drive space, handles everything I mention above I would highly recommend this HP to anyone and have. You can't beat it for the price and features. A++

I bought this computer when my other computer died suddenly. It is pretty snappy. The 6 gb of memory and 1 tb hard drive are great. The ON switch is on the top, making it very handy. The memory card reader is at the top of the front panel, above the CD drive, so it is quite accessible as well. The case is quite small, so you won't be able to do much upgrading. it does not support IDE, so if you want to add a second CD/DVD drive or hard drive you will need to get SATA. The power supply is an outdated 250 watts. It only has MOLEX power connectors, so you will also need MOLEX to SATA power adapters in order to add those extra SATA drives. You have to remove the power supply to get a second CD/DVD drive installed. Overall, I can live with this machine, but I feel limited with it, compared to my last computer.

Computer was great right out of the box. The wireless was easy to set up and works without any hiccups. It's an extraordinarily quiet machine, especially with the heat-sink only graphics card I inserted. The power supply was a little wimpy, but that's an easy $20 upgrade. The quad-core allowed me to install a game while transferring files, while downloading another browser, while browsing with the preloaded one. Each one ran like it was the only thing up. Great deal!

I bought this computer as a replacement to my 4 year old Dell Workstation, and it has served me well so far. Have done a little of everything with it (browsing, videos, movies, and gaming), and it does all very well. The only hiccup is with gaming, as it has an onboard video card rather than a dedicated one, however, even with the onboard you are still able to play most modern games with fairly good to modest settings. It has some room for expansion as well, with an open ram slot (for another 2 GB ram upgrade), and an open PCI-E slot as well. Overall definitely a good computer for the price!

I bought this PC because my old PC (about 5 years old with 2gb's of RAM) was slowing down when I loaded and tried to edit my SLR photos. The 6 Gigs of RAM is great, but 8 Gigs would have been nice. The 6 Gigs does everything I need to for photo editing, but I have seen a ton of computers out there with 8 gigs. The 1TB hard drive is also very nice. I am not a fan of the "HP" software that is installed, but have been able to disable the things I don't like. The windows 7 is very nice as well. A few more USB's would have been nice, as well as a dual monitor setup, but for $629.00 what can you ask for.

I use alot of graphic programs and multi-task with an average of 4 to 5 programs at a time.......I absolutely LOVE this machine.....it's extremely fast and efficient........And completely thrilled with my purchase....I've always loved HP products and again I am thrilled with this product!!!

It's a nice machine and at the price I got it for quite a good value. There are 6GB of nice fast RAM, which will get you a quick Windows 7 environment and webbrowsing, a great big hard drive, and the built in media slots are great for people like me who fill up loads of SD cards with photos. However, this is clearly not a machine for gaming. It has the requisite CPU power and RAM, but the video card is really quite lacking. You won't be jacking Crysis up to max, or even medium. Be aware that this machine only has a 250W power supply, so if you want to upgrade anything, you will need to upgrade that as well. If you are looking for a midrange gaming machine, you may wish to look elsewhere.