HP Blackbird 002

Pros: Great when it works

Cons: It usually doesn't work

Summary: I've had this computer for about two months. It has continually crashed to blue screen or frozen. I ran memtest on each of the four ram sticks and found two were faulty. HP replaced them, but the problems persisted. I couldn't boot without repairing each time with the system disk. Since the computer crashed/froze so often, that took a lot of time. I finally did a clean Vista install, downloaded an update on one of the system files, this required a reboot, and I got a boot disk failure message, and told to use the system disk to repair.

Since there was at that point NOTHING on the computer but the o/s, I was not encouraged, but I did it, got to the desk top, started to download another update and it froze.

The HP reps have been friendly and helpful, but haven't solved the problem. They are now telling me to pack up the monster and send it back to them so they can test it, a process that will undoubtedly take weeks if not months. I have no files, no computer, and no belief whatsoever in the Blackbird.

Based on the other reviews, which tend to be either 10/10 or 1/10, I conclude some of the Blackbirds are simply lemons, and I have one of those.

I rue the day I bought it.