New HP Pavilions, Presarios announced

Something must be in the air this week, at least when it comes to announcements. Almost in tandem with Dell, Hewlett-Packard has entered the fray to show off its phantasmagorical selection of desktop-delights. Nothing groundbreaking here, but a decent cross section of models to choose from, including the small-form-factor Pavilion Slimline s3100n and s3120n, mid-range models a6110n, a6120n and a6130n, and two new media center Pavilions, the m8100n and m8120n. Also on offer are the Compaq Presario SR5110NX and SR5130NX, on a more budget-friendly tip. The majority of these feature the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE integrated graphics chipset and Windows Vista Home Premium. Here's a long list of specs to sink your teeth into:

• Pavilion Slimline s3100n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000, 1GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive
• Pavilion Slimline s3120n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive, TV-tuner, FireWire
• Pavilion a6110n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive
• Pavilion a6120n - Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard drive
• Pavilion a6130n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 400GB hard drive
• Pavilion m8100n - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, TV-tuner, remote
  
• Pavilion m8120n - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, 3GB of RAM, 640GB hard drive, TV-tuner, remote
• Presario SR5110NX - AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU, 512MB of RAM, 120GB hard drive
• Presario SR5130NX - AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU, 1GB of RAM, 200GB hard drive
  

Clearly a little something for everyone -- as long as you're in the market for an HP desktop, that is.

Update - Due to a little Photoshopping mishap, the original image didn't give the correct impression of the size of these desktops side-by-side, but that has been corrected.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2007 9:28PM]

i have to admit... I admire apple but am really tired of all the hype. pc news!

[Dragod Posted Jun 26th 2007 9:30PM]

Wow, this is strange... No 14th iPhone article for today?

Yes, I counted...

[LiQuiDFuSioN Posted Jun 26th 2007 9:39PM]

Cosmetically, I'm starting to love the look of these sleek black HP desktops. Get a black desktop and a black HP LCD monitor and you're ready to go! HP is a pretty well-trusted brand, imo. I've had a model since 2001 and it's still.. running okay. Still!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2007 9:51PM]

I picked up the Slimline s3120n from Circuit City online two weeks ago and am wonderfully pleased.

[codboymt Posted Jun 26th 2007 10:03PM]

The s3120n almost addresses (almost) every concern I had with the s3020n (which I've almost bought twice now). Now I just need it to be available in Canada. :D Anyone have suggestions on a half-height pci or pci-e card that would work in this puppy?

[codboymt Posted Jun 26th 2007 10:04PM]

halif height VIDEO card that should have been

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2007 10:57PM]

The juicy Q6600 quadcore will be at Office Depot in a few weeks. mmmm goodness

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 26th 2007 11:08PM]

It's funny how they don't mention the video cards, maybe because they know that the GPU's they put in there are crap.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 27th 2007 2:24AM]

Yeah, I see that all the time in ads for boxes from Dell or HP or whatever. Today I saw an ad in the paper that took the time to mention the 2 GB DDR2 667 mhz RAM (how many people are going to understand all that?) but it said nothing of the GPU. I suspected the same thing you did: they probably didn't mention it because it's crappy.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 27th 2007 12:36AM]

HP's current Slimline models are awesome!!! Best SFF system is this! The optional 80-120GB removable media bay is kick ass too. I'd go Intel with one of these puppies.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 27th 2007 2:33AM]

not sure why this is "news". we've had these exact models, same model numbers and all, at the best buy i work at for almost 2 months. (except the 8120)

[carpecervisi Posted Jun 27th 2007 9:02AM]

I picked up one of the M8120N's from Circuit City this weekend. It has some great specs, but with the nVidia 7350LE card, the Vista score was only 3.4 or something. I put in a new nVidia 8600GTS (more interested in HD video than gaming) and it now scores a healthy 5.8. For $1100, the HP is a very nice package.

[greatslack Posted Jun 27th 2007 11:17AM]

Good God, those are ugly