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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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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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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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