First Impresions: Nice Case P4 = Good (but Athlon XP better) Medium Specs Can Play Games Nice Ammount Of Ram Won't fall apart on you
The case is almost exactly like that of the other HP macine. It would look good, as HP are behind it. I don't know why they bother really, they only make 0.08% profit on every machine sold.
The specs are that of a medium PC. The 512mg ram is a nice touch and will open up many games, and a fast load time in games like Enemy Territory. Now, the nicest bit is S-ATA, so if you care to update your hard drive buy the 2 Raptors (10000rpm, S-ATA) and put them into Raid 0 (for more info on raid see any decent PC site).
Onboard grahics bring what could have been a very good machine crashing down to the state of good. However, there is suppost to be a 8x AGP slot, so you can override the rubbish graphics with something decent.
Only 40g's for you to use up on the hard drive so after a few months it'll be a good old delete session, but only if your a gamer.
3 years warranty is good, so if the thing implodes on you just give good old HP a phone and get it fixed. No dought if its RTB warranty they'll get you to pa delevery so just don't break it ok?
DVD-Rom is a nice toch however it is practicly rendered useless by the onboard graphics, so buy yourself a new card and you'll be watching films in no time.
It includes Windows XP Pro but that 'aight any good if its for the home so a old fashioned partition and re-format is in order.
A good PC, a very good buisiness PC, could be a gamer's PC (needs a little work though).
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Advantages: Fairly good spec for price, good room for updating in the future Disadvantages: Deceptive price -many peripherals not included. Also apart from processor spec not amazing
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