HP Compaq Business Desktop D530

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HP Compaq Business Desktop D530

The Compaq line of small form factor PCs have always been sturdy machines very suited to the business environment. Compaq used to take care to design a machine without the frills, which would meet most standard business use. Costs were also kept low, and this made for a generally acceptable ... Read review

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Careful you don't drop it!

Advantages: Great name and good support
Disadvantages: poor build quality, flimsy

The Compaq line of small form factor PCs have always been sturdy machines very suited to the business environment.

Compaq used to take care to design a machine without the frills, which would meet most standard business use. Costs were also kept low, and this made for a generally acceptable business unit. The D5xx range has never been targeted at the home user, and probably never will.

Unfortunately, this new machine ...
...the technologies and speed of the unit. My real issues are around the casing and build quality.

Firstly, it is REALLY heavy. I suppose some may say this is an theft deterrent, but there is no real need for the weight.

This is especially true when you notice that the case is extremely light and flimsy. In a business environment, machines need to be able to take some abuse from staff, and I wonder if this unit will prove ... more

pob0782 03.11.2004
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great workhorse!

Advantages: brand name, small form factor case
Disadvantages: expensive

A company that i have recently done work for has purchased a number of these machine (my job was to set up the network, and install the computers). On the outside: =========== The computer case is finished in black and silver and makes it look fantastic! The computer is in a small form factor case, meaning it won't take up as much space on your desk as a normal sized machine! On the front of the machine, there are the following ports: - Headphone ...
...the rear, there are: -4 x USB -1 x serial port - 1 x parallel port - 2 x PS/2 (keyboard and mouse) - 1 x RJ-45 - 1 x VGA - Audio In - Audio Out - Headphone - Mic In As you can see there are lots of USB ports (6 in total)! Which is great as now practically any computer pheripheral has the option to be connected with USB. On the inside =========== - P4 3.2Ghz with 400Mhz Front Side Bus with hyper threding - 2 x 256MB RAM (Total of 512MB) ...

andy.taylor 24.06.2004 · Read full review
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The Future Of Good Value Desktop PC's

Advantages: Cheap Price, Top Of The Range For Price Bracket
Disadvantages: There are faster systems out there, comes stand alone with no hardware

...receive a free copy of HP Client Manager which is a web-based tool and lets you inventory hardware, monitory system health and upload drivers. A very useful tool at all times. BEWARE: This is a stand alone desktop machine. It does not come with a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, or any other hardware. As such it is best for those wanting to upgrade (me) or those piecing together their own system. An excellent system for the price. I would recommend ...

friedchris 16.04.2004 · Read full review
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Good value, but don't be fooled by this

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

A friend from work recently purchased this PC, due to its low cost and fast speed, however after buying the PC was very disappointed. At first glance this seems like a great buy, however the fast processor is really the only high spec. component of the PC, and this may trick potential buyers into believing that it maintains that standard in all aspects. Lack of monitor, poor graphics card, low amount of RAM, below par sound system and general absence ...
...mean that much more money would have to be spent to make this PC usable by a home or inexperienced buyer. Overall this means they would probably be better buying a complete PC for a few hundred more. However the PC isn't all bad -to a user upgrading their previous PC this may be useful as you already own all the missing equipment and any of the lower specs could be upgraded with your own hardware, as a plus side to this PC is that there is plenty ...

Terigoche 10.05.2004 · Read full review
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my first impressions

Advantages: A all around pc. great buy if you can find it for cheap.
Disadvantages: No space to fit 2 drives in. cannot fit AGP graphics Card in (no room), only PCI graphics card.

This is my first time ever upgrading my computer and i chose this. i brought this 1 for £200 i dont know why shops are selling it for £900 it's not worth that much. this pc is able to play sims 2 ( just to give you exsample of what it can do), the only thing you need to do with this computer is to upgrade the ram, it's way too small and upgrade the drive. not much programs use CD rom these days. it has 2 usb slots in the front and 4 in the back, ...
...with a stand so i can put it on it's side. i dont know if the one you buy online provide stands. for that price they should provide stands. here are specs of computer: Form Factor Desktop Slimline Processor Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz Installed Memory 256 MB (DDR SDRAM) Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Recommended Use Corporate Business, Small Business Processor Processor Type Intel Pentium 4 Processor Speed 2.4 GHz ...

huyi 08.09.2005 · Read full review
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Good for doing work.

Advantages: easily upgradable.
Disadvantages: low specs (except for processor)

Its a great computer for work, its got plenty of ram and probably enough hard disk space.If you are wanting to play games on it however, it has no where near the right amount of ram or disk space. It would be too slow for a lot of graphic design work as well. If you are wanting a gaming machine, I suggest you look elsewhere as this won't really be up to it even with upgrades. If you want to do typing and graphic design, you might find it beneficial ...

Gravitate 25.05.2004 · Read full review
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Advantages: Cool Case (Didn't I See That In Toys R Us The Other Day???), Cool Specs
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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 ...

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Advantages: Slim, Optional Stand, Fast
Disadvantages: Only 1 PCI Slot

In all the Compaq d530 USDT is a lovely machine to work on and to support, its slim design limits the amount of deskspace required and also the option of standing it up like a bookend is also another very appealing feature. The machine in general comes with a very fast Pentium 4 2.4ghz dual processor, 256 MB Ram (min) and at least a 40gb hard drive, so there is alot of nice components inside. The only thing that this type of compaq lacks is additional PCI slots, it comes with a standard 1, but thats all so if you wanted to add anyting more then 1 extra component then you would be stuffed. We use alot of comapq machines and in terms of use in an office this is more then adequate to run all your normal programs and operating system, there is the option of upgrading or adding further memory if required, but so far i have not felt ...

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