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 NO HP anymore. Aug 20, 2009
It's worst experience ever I had. HP had the misleading warranty policy.
I contacted CA Attorney General Office.
Kindly CA Attorney General office helped me out from this time consuming stupid experience.
From now, HP is not the company I used to think, I and my company will not purchase the HP products.
So far we have too many HP products. Now I am thinking about alternatives.
I know I am not the only one.
My recommendations: NO HP. YOU WILL REGRET.
After I had a problem w/ HP, I bought the Dell Laptop. It's amazing and stable.
JUST BE AWARE!!!
 My main computer Feb 26, 2009
I bought this model back in October 2007 and it still works great. I did make a few upgrades:
-Upgraded Power Supply to an Antec EA500 ATX 12V 500W Power Supply for ATX Cases
-Upgraded the Graphics Card to a XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Ready Video Card (Dual DVI/S-Video)
-Added 1 GB of RAM.
Some people have complained about the power button being on the top. You get used to it, you just need to remember not to set stuff on top of your tower (which I try not to do anyway). You can disable the button via Windows and shut down only via the software if you keep hitting it on accident.
The ONLY issue I have had with it is when I tried to upgrade the DVD drive, I broke the spring that holds the flap over the drives closed. It's annoying, but not functionally damaging.
Overall, a very solid PC and a good price back then (I paid about $800 for it two years ago). Since then I've put in about $200 in upgrades. I can play most new games (Call of Duty 4 & World at War run flawlessly) and I have never had a serious crash. My motherboard and processor run cooler than most similar computers and I haven't made any cooling upgrades. Case is easy to access, the side comes off and you can remove the front if necessary.
 Excelente Sep 26, 2008
Tremenda relación precio-valor, la maquina funciona a la perfección, para todas mis necesidades, que son las básicas, no he probado jugar en ella, para eso están las consolas, por su puesto trae un montón de programas pre instalados que uno no quiere pero en lo que le quites el peso extra corre muy bien!!!
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 Build your own computer, don't buy one and get ripped off! Jul 24, 2008
I'm going to tell you right now. Most people will buy this computer because they either don't have time to build their own, or simply don't have the time. I will also tell you that it would be a big mistake. I built my own computer for $720 and some change that is much better than this. I'll compare the specs below.
Hard Drive
While this computer has a 360GB hard drive, mine rocks a 640GB hard drive that's backed with a 5-year warranty. Not to shabby, eh? That's almost a 78% bigger hard drive.
DVD/CD Drive
I have a 20x DVD/CD Burner with lightscribe/dual-layer capabilities which is the same as the one that comes with this computer, only faster, as this computer's drive is only 16x.
RAM
Though both my computer and this computer have 2GB's of RAM, there is a difference...the speed. The RAM on this computer runs at 667MHz, while mine runs at 1066MHz. Also, my motherboard has a max amount of 16GBs, while the motherboard that comes with this computer maxes out at 8GBs.
Motherboard
As mentioned above, my motherboard has a higher amount of possible RAM, but that's not all it has going for it. My motherboard has a FSB of 5200MT/s while this motherboard has only 2000MT/s. Quite a difference if you ask me. There are also a few different things you'd see my motherboard has that this one doesn't, though minimal.
Graphics
While this computer comes with nothing but onboard graphics mine looks stunning on my 22" widescreen monitor when it's connected to my 8800GT. I can't even begin to tell you the difference between onboard graphics, and an actual graphics card, let alone the 8800GT. You'll NEVER want to go back to onboard graphics once you've seen what "real" graphics cards can actually do.
Power Supply
This seems to be a big problem among must buyers. With this computer you get a wimpy 250-watt power supply which is good for nothing except what's already on the computer. If you even want to add a few things you'll want to upgrade your power supply first which can cost another $50 (give or take) to what you've already spent. However, my computer has a 700-watt power supply which powers everything in my computer seamlessly, AND leaves room for anything else I might want to add.
CPU
Though the CPU in this computer is nice (AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz), you might find mine to be the real attention grabber, being an AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz.
Computer Case
I'm not going to lie, I don't have the greatest looking case, but it gets the job done, and with over 1900+ happy owners (including me) who have had no problems, I'm not going to complain.
Now, to end my review, I'm just going to ask everyone, why? Not really, I'm going to rant on some more, but I think people should really take the time to learn how to build their own computer. It's actually a very easy process, and can save you hundreds of dollars. In my case it didn't save me any money, per se, but I did get a much better computer for the same price. If I had chosen to make the exact computer shown here (on Amazon) I could have easily saved anywhere from $200-$400. Either way, I spent almost exactly the same amount to build a computer that is possibly 10x better. All the products I used are below, and if you have the time, I recommend you look into building your own computer.
PLEASE NOTE---I did not include the price of Vista. You should be able to find Vista for anywhere from $120-$200 depending on which version you want, which will obviously put you up a bit, maybe to $850, but you can easily leave out the 8800GT and use the $150 you would've spent on that on a copy of Vista, or whichever OS you want. Even if you choose not to get the 8800GT you'll still have better on board graphics, and all the other components will still be better as well. Hope that informed people!
-Samsung DVD Burner SH-S203N-------------------$26.99
-Western Digital Caviar 640GB WD6400AAKS--------$89.99
-BIOSTAR TFORCE TA780G M2+ (Motherboard)------$79.99
-COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW (Case)---$49.99
-EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512-P3-N801-AR-----------$149.99
-OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V------$114.99
-G.SKILL RAM (2x 1GB) F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK--------$59.99
-AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz ADX6400CZBOX----$149.00
Please note, prices vary by store and time of purchase.
Excellent machine May 06, 2008
Purchased this machine in November '07. I was only hooked up to the onboard video long enough to see if the machine would boot up and when it did I immediately added a mid-grade video card and upgraded to a 430 watt ThermalTake power supply. I also added an additional 2GB system memory, even though the standard 2GB would have probably been quite sufficient. I'm not convinced it is absolutely necessary add memory to run Vista, but you can't have too much of the stuff either. Vista Home Premium is what it is...I guess we'll have to get used to it eventually. I don't have any particular problems with Vista, just some things rearranged and not where I got used to them being. The machine has plenty of horsepower to operate the Aero desktop so at least you get that benefit from the Vista OS. The Vista driver for my ancient HP PSC1210 All-In-One supported just the basic print functions (and not very well at that) and HP said they weren't going to release Vista drivers for that printer, so that gave me the excuse to go buy an Epson. The machine has flawlessly run everything I've asked it to run for these 6 months now, so I guess I have enough hours on it to be able to recommend it to anyone thinking about purchasing a new machine.
HP Pavilion A6200N Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+, 2 GB RAM, 360 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium)
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