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Advantages: Massive h/d all plug and play looks great top spec
Disadvantages: setup instructions are on the pc

This is awesome! easy to get going comes with all accessories, optical mouse wireless keyboard, radio tuner, wireless receiver, microsoft works, remote contol, Norton the list is endless. Tv/radio tuner programme easy to use/understand. Fan is practically silent. Features Lightscribe which basically when you burn a dvd/cd the drive will etch at design predetermined by you onto the surface of the disc its amazing, you have to buy special discs but ...
...I love th eway they have hidden the extra usb hubs and stuff behind a sliding door, and all the memory card slots on the front are great. All of my other hardware was plug and play it accepted everyone with no messing. The keyboard is out of this world, there is a remote control on there to control music buttons for everything you can imagine and its easy to set up your own links to the buttons. I could go on and on all day about it but I wont, I ... Read review

Advantages: Large RAM and fast processor means it will play the latest gmaes
Disadvantages: No fire wire ports

This machine is very powerfull the large RAM combined with a top of the range graphics card means that you should have no trouble playing the latest games and using it for graphical tasks. The large hard drive means that you wont run out of memory any time soon. Even though the machine dosnt have a fire wire port it compansates by having 7 usb2 ports allowing you to connect mp3 players and all other sorts of devices that require a fast connection ... Read review

Advantages: Great processor, Massive Hard Drive, Cheap price for what you get
Disadvantages: Graphics Card is poor if you want to play the latest games at top spec

...decision in investing in an HP computer as it has been extremely reliable and has yet to go wrong which is always nice. I'm sure at some stage it will go wrong, but at the moment I'm happy with it and the performance doesn't seem to have dropped in the slightest since the moment I bought it. For all those that are interested before I start to write the main brunt of my review, here are the technical specifications of what you will get for your money ...
...them and read on) ~Processor, Operating System and Memory~ Processor AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3700+ Operating system installed Genuine Windows XP Home Edition Chipset ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200 Standard memory 1 GB Memory type DDR-SDRAM Memory slots 4 DIMM sockets ~Internal drives~ Internal hard disk drive 250 GB Hard disk controllerSerial ATA hard drive Hard disk drive speed (7200 rpm) Optical drive type DVD drive Optical drive ... Read review

Advantages: Quiet, Fast & Reliable, Plenty of Space for expansion
Disadvantages: Bulky & Heavy

I bought one of these in October 2004. Price: £799 (including Lexmark Z1800 printer) Spec: 2.8 ghz Pentium 4 processor 256mb ddr ram x600 Radeon Graphics Card 15" Flatscreen Monitor Software bundle including Microsoft Works Windows XP Home Edition I use it approximately 5 hours daily. It is a very quiet machine compared to some of the PC's on the market and although this might not seem important - there is nothing worse than a noisy fan ...
...(sorry glancing!) at the television. It is fast enough for most home users and equipped with enough memory to play the latest games. (it also has 3 extra memory slots for upgrading). As standard with most home computers, also included in the package is an intel mouse and keyboard and standard packard bell speakers. This machine also has the capibilites of watching television on it and comes complete with 6 USB hubs. Audio wise - it has AUX connections ... Read review

Advantages: Pentium D processor, large hard disk drive, Lightscribe
Disadvantages: Noisier than some PCs

...weeks and finally chose the HP Pavilion T3155. I bought it direct from Comet, and it was on offer so cost £449.99 On switching the computer on I found it was slightly louder than my previous one. Anyone who's 'computer handy' could probably fix this. I didn't feel it was much of a problem, and I don't even notice it now. I think it would also depend on how noisy your last computer was, to whether it was a problem or not. The T3155 started up much ...
...Also worth mentioning is the HP website which is full of information and you can easily download a manual for the T3155 from there at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&cc=uk&jumpid=regR1002UKEN&product=1117307&dlc=en&, and also any drivers if you need them. However there was an excellent manual included in the box, as well as information on the XP software. Update*** I've now had this computer for six months, and I'm still very ... Read review