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"Best in the market" on by nilesh23
Pros: high speed, vista home premium
Cons: trying to find one
Summary: It gives a smooth start, without noticeable fan noise. My laptop recently broke and wanted to buy a sturdy system...searched on the net for a system of the same configuration, though it is priced high on HP website, i bought it at $850 at circuit city. Cudnt find cheaper than that anywhere else...neither on DELL...
As far as perfornamce goes, i give a 10 till now...havent tried the lightscribe yet, but DVD/CD burning works great...has total of 7 USB ports, 9 card reader slots...
just one thing i expect that they shud have TV tuner inbuilt in it...CNET has something personal against it that they have rated it so low...
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"Ranking seems a litle low" on by charford
Pros: 2 GB Ram, Great processor, Great Price
Cons: No Decent Graphics Card
Summary: It really is hard to beat this deal. I picked up this computer with a 22 inch monitor and a printer from Circuit City for about $1030. For the money that is basically unbeatable. The next step up was the HP m7747c with a E6400 processor, 2 GB Ram, Upgraded graphics card, All the media center connections, and a second dvd drive- which is alot more computer but it has a price tag of $1500 with a 22 inch monitor and wireless keyboard and mouse at Sam's Club. If you are looking to save a little on some of the extra features then this is a good deal. It is about 500 dollars cheaper and all it really needs is an added graphics card.
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"Why the downgrade?" on by Case Ace
Pros: bigger hard drive than a1640n
Cons: CNET does not recommend
Summary: I'm confused... CNET rated what appeared to be to be a slightly lesser equiped HP a1640n system 7.8 Although that Very Good rating was given 5 months ago, how is a Not Recommended 5.3 rating justified on this similiar computer?
the a1640n is discontinued. Best Buy is offering the 1740 with a with 17" LCD Monitor, Printer, Cable & Surge Protector for $1039.
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"good for the price" on by APL17
Pros: good processor, more than enough ram
Cons: graphics card
Summary: i think cnet was hard on this system. it ain't amazing, but it comes with a 1.86GHZ x2 processor from intel and 2 gigs of ram, for $700 and running vista home premium that's pretty decent. just wish the graphics card was better. --APL
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"Solid Performance, good HD space, enough RAM right off the bat" on by ArashFarah
Pros: Solid Power for price. Core 2 Duo processer has better Cache than AMD X2. The front side is not that much different than AMD.
Cons: No Video Card and wheel mouse (hate that) and 4GIG max ram
Summary: I like the computer for the price and the power. Fry's had a $50.00 rebate for it. Since I make amateur videos of kids, I like to processor to be strong with enough RAM. I had to purchase a 256MB video card--7600 GT to help with video editing. It comes with Vista Home Premium and that is a resource hog so I recommend buying a video card. You can funciton without it, but if you decide to run Adobe Photoshop, In desig, Premiere and so forth, the video card will help. The other thing that I wish it had was more RAM capacity. 4 GIG is fine for now but I bet that in 4 years from now, that will become standard and then the system becomes old too quick.
SOlid for the price for people on a budget needing a little more power.
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