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Posted at 7:44 AM on Wednesday 11/19/08 by
Ben
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HP Home has the HP Pavilion Elite s3600z series Desktop for $450. Configure with Vista 64-Bit, AMD Phenom 9100e quad-core 1.8GHz, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS, 4GB DDR2, 500GB, Wireless-G LAN card and external modem, Blu-ray Player, to reach $1000 - $400 off $999 code DT4628 = $600 with free shipping.

  • Phenom Quad 1.8GHz, 4GB DDR2, 500GB SATA, Blu-ray Disc Player
  • 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9500GS, Wireless-G LAN card and external modem
  • No Monitor, 15-in-1 Front Panel Memory Card Reader, Vista Home Premium
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      bigboi - Posted 8:10 am PST 11/19/08 (98 Posts)  Report Spam

      This a good deal? I was leaning towards an intel quad core processor and a better video card.

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      Pei - Posted 8:29 am PST 11/19/08 (462 Posts)  Report Spam

      Bad deal; sub-par computer that use the blu-ray player to drive up price.

      Replace blu-ray with DVD+RW and dripe the price to $350 would make this an ok deal.

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      philipbi - Posted 1:49 pm PST 11/19/08 (46 Posts)  Report Spam

      i bought one of these and ran a external USB Adaptec Dual TV Tuner w/remote to become my primary media center machine.

      The TV tuners are hardware based encoding so it takes the load off the CPU. The form factor is right. when you lay it on side, it is no bigger than vcr or dvd footprint. the size was worth this unit for me. Multitasking is no problem for this thing. I archive dvd to my library, record two tv channels at same time and can surf the net without feel any perf degrading experiences.

      Obviously not a gaming ideal environment, but as a media center i think this is a great option.

      I had looked at the Dell Studio slim as my alternative for size.

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