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Posted by koodo on 03-28-2009 08:01 PM:

Major Purchase

Thinking of buying this. $900 CAD and those supposedly in the know say for most anyone's needs and the price can't go wrong. It's a HP featuring:

"The powerful Intel Core 2 Quad Processor and 8GB of system memory work together to compute large amounts of data, so this PC runs applications smoothly and quickly.

You’ve got more than enough room for your videos, photos, music and documents with a 640GB hard drive.

Equipped with an ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card with 512MB dedicated graphics memory, DVI, HDMI and VGA capabilities, and support for Blu-ray, HD DVD, and Microsoft DirectX 10.

Get connected to your home network with the integrated 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity.

A Super Multi DVD burner with LightScribe technology lets you create DVDs and CDs with custom labels etched on compatible discs.

Transfer files to and from your peripheral devices using 6 USB and 2 FireWire ports, as well as the 15-in-1 memory card reader.

This model features pre-installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition with Service Pack 1."

Advice plse.

Posted by HoldDaSalad on 03-28-2009 08:33 PM:

It's an HP it's not worth a 1/4 of what your going to pay, No I didn't read your whole post.

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Posted by ntscuser on 03-28-2009 08:50 PM:

There's nothing wrong with H-P except the crippled OS and crapware which comes bundled with it. If you can find it for a good price and install a decent OS (not hard) it should be okay.

Posted by koodo on 03-28-2009 09:37 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ntscuser
There's nothing wrong with H-P except the crippled OS and crapware which comes bundled with it. If you can find it for a good price and install a decent OS (not hard) it should be okay.

By far the greatest concern. Some friends say strip Vista of all its useless add ons and bundles and it will operate similar to XP.

Posted by monty23 on 03-28-2009 10:18 PM:

Re: Major Purchase

quote:
Originally posted by koodo
Thinking of buying this. $900 CAD and those supposedly in the know say for most anyone's needs and the price can't go wrong. It's a HP featuring:

"The powerful Intel Core 2 Quad Processor and 8GB of system memory work together to compute large amounts of data, so this PC runs applications smoothly and quickly.

You’ve got more than enough room for your videos, photos, music and documents with a 640GB hard drive.

Equipped with an ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card with 512MB dedicated graphics memory, DVI, HDMI and VGA capabilities, and support for Blu-ray, HD DVD, and Microsoft DirectX 10.

Get connected to your home network with the integrated 802.11b/g/n wireless connectivity.

A Super Multi DVD burner with LightScribe technology lets you create DVDs and CDs with custom labels etched on compatible discs.

Transfer files to and from your peripheral devices using 6 USB and 2 FireWire ports, as well as the 15-in-1 memory card reader.

This model features pre-installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition with Service Pack 1."

Advice plse.

It's okay. Like para said, it's overpriced and if you can't build one yourself then yeah, it's fine.

You've got to ask yourself what you want to use it for. Its's a Quad Core but what speed? Lightscribe is not something i'm a fan of, OS you can probably source yourself, graphics card is only ok and HDs are cheap as chips these days.

In addition the DDR is none specified by make. Could be quality like Corsair or just unbranded stuff.

That said, you get a warranty, an OS license and some horrible HP software (trust me!)

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Posted by HoldDaSalad on 03-28-2009 10:35 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ntscuser
There's nothing wrong with H-P except the crippled OS and crapware which comes bundled with it. If you can find it for a good price and install a decent OS (not hard) it should be okay.

They use some of the shittiest hardware they can get there hands on, and charge an inflated price.

Your best bet is is to build a pc, and then put Xp on it. Fuck Vista.

I might install Win7, I do like a lot of the features with it. Then again maybe not. LOL

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Posted by LOLobo on 03-28-2009 11:01 PM:

Agreeing with para

Hate HP now. I look at them like the Gateway of today. Crap hardware, especially their boards. Rather build my own.

wait I did. Shuttle box with dual-core, 1 tb hd, 4gb ram, sony dvdrw.

use it as a headless box for less than $430.

love it.

Posted by bartleby on 03-29-2009 01:31 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by HoldDaSalad

Your best bet is is to build a pc, and then put Xp on it. Fuck Vista.

Lots of people hate vista , what's the reason for this ?

I've been using it for about a year and found it to be fine.

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Posted by gezzer on 03-29-2009 01:40 AM:

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Originally posted by bartleby
Lots of people hate vista , what's the reason for this ?

Because it's shit, driver problems no end on laptops (in my experience) slowed my PC to a crawl after a month.
Also 100% agree with Lolobo I built my own for 190 quid , foxconn board ,amd dual core 3.8 ,3x250 g hard drives (they were cheap). built my own since windows 3.1 wouldn't have it any other way. After all its only a nine piece jigsaw puzzle at the end of the day.

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Posted by The CandyMan on 03-29-2009 03:02 AM:

And for gaming Vista is crap. Many older games still have some issues and even with sp 1 you'll still have 5-40% decrease in fps as well. When 3 major pc magazines that focus on hardware and gaming all agree to stick with XP you probably should listen if you're a gamer like me.

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Posted by HoldDaSalad on 03-29-2009 05:41 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
And for gaming Vista is crap. Many older games still have some issues and even with sp 1 you'll still have 5-40% decrease in fps as well. When 3 major pc magazines that focus on hardware and gaming all agree to stick with XP you probably should listen if you're a gamer like me.

You're not a gamer, you're a collector. Nuff said.

Vista is bloat ware. It takes much more power to run it decently, If you don't have quad-core don't bother, LOL.

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Posted by Bakkoda on 03-29-2009 07:48 PM:

vLite + Vista 64 and your worries are gone. Been using it for about 6 months and never had a problem. I do have a beefy rig but even on a tiny little budget pc build (300 bucks, e5200, 4gb of ddr2 800, nvidia 7600 or so) Vista 64 ran fine and was as good as XP.

IMO Build your own PC, Id be willing to help ya, and put your own OS choice on it.

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