So
HP's trying to get all lifestyle-friendly with a few new
desktop PC designs, and while the looks and form factors aren't a huge departure for HP by any means, the prices are right, specs are decent, and the looks aren't too shabby. The real looker of the bunch is the relatively tiny HP Pavilion Slimline s3000 series, which starts at $500 with an AMD processor and 1GB of RAM, or $550 if you're going the Intel route. You can configure the desktop with a TV tuner, a couple low rent video cards, and there's a Pocket Media Drive bay option if you're into that kind of thing. If that's still too spendy for you, you can grab from the a6000 set, with prices starting at $330 for an Intel processor, 512MB of RAM, a Pocket Media Drive bay, integrated graphics and not much else. Finally, the m8000 desktops get "fancy" with options for HD DVD drives, beefy dual core processors from AMD or Intel, and prices starting at $950. All of the computers come with Vista preloaded -- which might give these limited specs a bit of a work out -- and are available now.
posted April 18th 2007 10:29AM
the look pretty decent.. until you that slap all those stickers on them tell how much ran and what every button does.
Yeah, agreed. They should make these stickers removable, in case someone actually recognizes a CF slot by the looks... Though that makes sense for beginners... making things simpler. Quite user friendly. But ugly.
niiiiiiiiceee
No it's not a black iMac, they still haven't gotten rid of the tower yet look.
All of those stickers ARE removable. Every time I get a new PC at work, I peel all of them off with NO problems.
I like it how HP has copied the bezel design of Samsung in their latest monitors. Piano Black is definitely the best looking bezel possible. It's not very functional for dual-screen though, but if they make it in a 24 inch I might be tempted. And the case is a big improvement over their last line with it's dull gray paint.
We got some of the m8000 in our lab the other day and tho they are nice... they only have a 350 Watt PSU. :(
any clue to what the PSU is on the a6000?
I recently got a cheap Compaq similar to these. So far, so good.
But HP's engineers are a lot better than their tech support. The reps don't know anything about Vista or partitioning, and there is no escalation to help. Their "advanced support group" was, if anything, less knowledgeable and ruder than the frontline. I don't even need "help" -- the box doesn't work as documented, but no one at HP will fix it.
HP makes solid stuff, but if you have a problem that goes off-script, you're on your own.
Well, the new monitors look pretty damn good, but the tower is still just the typical ugly pc which looks like it been thrown together from a bunch of unrelated crap... and plus the mouse and keyboard look pretty horrible also... then again hp never was famous for good mice or keyboards; logitech and microsoft always were the best in that area... :)
What HP and other companies should do is reduce the amounts of computers they throw on the market. It's really hard for average people out there to just go and buy a computer. There's just too many choices, and it's hard to differentiate between them. s3000? e510? Letter/number combos are pretty old. They really have to work on concentrating power on a select few, then throw out so many, that it's hard for tech support to figure out which computer you're using. Otherwise than that, this new line actually looks surprisingly good.
- part of my "how to make PC's better" report.
HP isn't throwing a bunch of computers onto the market, only 4. There is your typical "everyday computing" computer, your media center PC's to record TV shows etc, your "high performance" computer, and then the HP Slimline. The only reason it seems like more is because HP creates two seperate models for each computer, one with an AMD processor, one with an Intel processor.
I think that blue wallpaper is awesome. Anybody have a copy, or can get one?
I think it ships standard with any recent HP computer...It was the standard wallpaper for mine.
I think that blue wallpaper is awesome. Anybody have a copy, or can get one?
Jordan Roher