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HomePrinters and SuppliesHP Pavilion A6220N Desktop PC (Intel Core2 Duo Processor E4500, 2 GB RAM, 400 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) |
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75 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 Expansion? Be prepared to replace the power supply! Nov 07, 2007
By E. Smith
"Value buyer"
I don't have this model, but I do have two other HP Desktops. The point of this review is to warn you that most HP Desktops are significantly under-powered. The 6200 unit has a 250w power supply and the 6230 has 300w(per their parts list on the web site)... Although there is a lot of room to add-on, you can't do much with only 250watts. Most decent PCIe video boards require at least 350w. I have a model a1450n (300w) and a a6009n (250w), both AMD 64x2 CPUs. The a6009n has a mother board with a 24-pin input socket for power(as do most new motherboards), but the power supply only has the older 20-pin output (the extra 4-pins are supposed to be to get extra power to the mother board to accomodate various add-ons, including accessories/peripherals that use USB ports. It works, but just minimal power.
The thing that burns me is HP makes it quite difficult to get power supply specs because they know they would be a liability (but they sure promote the extra slots and expandability). The only way to find out is to actually look inside the case or check the parts list on their web site.
The bottom line is you should plan to replace the power supply if you're going to add-on much to your system. Besides the inconvenience, that's an extra $50-$150... and a wasted, useless replaced power supply.
26 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Good bargain, but... Oct 09, 2007
By Warden H. Hwan
I just got the HP Pavilon a6220n this week. For the price, it is a really good value. However, be aware that despite the fact that there is a fax/modem included, vista home premium does not allow you to send out faxes. Apparently, the faxing feature is only part of the Vista business or Ultimate versions. If you are considering upgrading from a computer with XP and planning on transferring your current software/ applications (Quicken, etc), be sure to check if your current applications are Vista compliant (otherwise, you should keep in account the cost of buying newer versions of your applications).
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
bad dvd driver Nov 26, 2007
By J. Mayorga
"J. May"
this is my second pc ( I had to return the first one)because it had a problem with the dvd recorder,also i called HP and they told me that it was a software problem and they sent me a recovery disk,that did not fixed it.
So I went ahead and had it exchange ,and now the dvd works but I received a warning on the total care advisor that read "your dvd driver may not be working" so the advisor ran a scan ,and it came out good.
But now I still afraid that it migth go bad.... So far so good ... we'll see.HP Pavilion A6200N Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+, 2 GB RAM, 360 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium)
Other than that it's an ok pc for the price .
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Couldn't Be Happier! Feb 25, 2008
By TLA
After looking at many brands, I finally decided that the wise decision was to go with the HP. For the money, no other brand could even come close to all of the many pros this machine has to offer. My internet is lighting fast and with the huge amount of space on the hard drive I reinstalled my Kodak Easy Share program. Even with this large program taking up hard drive space, it will take a long time for me to use the rest of it up! I love Windows Vista as well.
I am so happy with this machine and I wish I would have purchased it a long time ago!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Somewhat disappointed Jan 11, 2008
By BigBird
HP Pavilion a6200n is supposed to be a well-designed desktop in every respect, however while having a PC geek doing the installation of the unit,I am quite shocked to learn that the DVI connector to monitor was NOT there as video card can still only display as analog,NOT digital - although nowadays quite a lot of ECONOMICAL brand/model desktops at about HALF-the-PRICE of the HP Pavilion a6200n do have BOTH analog and digital connectors to the LCD monitors.
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