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Summary: Great except for one thing...
Review: A fantastic computer. It has everything you could want: one of the fastest CPUs on the market, plenty of DDR ram, big hard drive, USB 2.0 *and* Firewire. And it's so cheap! What could be wrong?Integrated Intel Extreme graphics. The extreme stands for "Extremely Pathetic." Okay, I'm being a little hard on poor Intel but while they make the best desktop CPUs out there, they are NOT a graphics company. Still, it isn't that bad (compares well with a Geforce2MX), but don't plan on using to run the latest games at their highest settings. The good news? This system has an AGP slot so you can add on a new graphics board with little effort and cost and then you will have a really great computer. I suggest looking at a ATI Radeon 8500 if you are on a budget, or a 9500 if you want a little more horse power. Both will run rings around any game out there. Nvidia GF4 Ti cards are great too just don't buy any Nvidia GF4 card with the words "MX" in the title. It means it is really an old Geforce2 or Geforce3 're-branded' to fool the unwary. That kind of marketing alone makes me avoid buying anything they make.
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Summary: Great except for one thing...
Review: A fantastic computer. It has everything you could want: one of the fastest CPUs on the market, plenty of DDR ram, big hard drive, USB 2.0 *and* Firewire. And it's so cheap! What could be wrong? Integrated Intel Extreme graphics. The extreme stands for "Extremely Pathetic." Okay, I'm being a little hard on poor Intel but while they make the best desktop CPUs out there, they are NOT a graphics company. Still, it isn't that bad (compares well with a Geforce2MX), but don't plan on using to run the latest games at their highest settings. The good news? This system has an AGP slot so you can add on a new graphics board with little effort and cost and then you will have a really great computer. I suggest looking at a ATI Radeon 8500 if you are on a budget, or a 9500 if you want a little more horse power. Both will run rings around any game out there. Nvidia GF4 Ti cards are great too just don't buy any Nvidia GF4 card with the words "MX" in the title. It means it is really an old Geforce2 or Geforce3 're-branded' to fool the unwary. That kind of marketing alone makes me avoid buying anything they make.
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Summary: Extremely Satisfied With This Computer
Review: I recently purchased this hp753n computer from a local Circuit City in my town. I have nothing but wonderful things to say about this system. I am a college student and find myself up late writing papers and surfing the web for research. Currently, I hold a dial up account with AOL and have personally never had trouble with their service. The speed of the processor greatly improved my ability to download software, music and just to get to websites. I used to sit and wait for several minutes to get a graphic-intensive website to open on my old system and now it comes up in a matter of seconds! I used to own an NEC computer with Windows 98 which I gave to my mother, as she has very basic needs on a computer right now. I chose this computer based on the items installed on the system. WordPerfect and RecordNow are 2 of the best programs that were installed from the facotry on this system. I have since installed Office on here among several other items. Coming from a Pentium 2 333Mghz processor to a 2.53Ghz processor was like night and day; the speed is remarkable. I have incredible capabilties with this computer, as I am also a photographer. I have only just begun to experiment with digital photography and find that this computer is an excellent complement to my photographical needs. I have used the programs installed on this computer as well as downloading and purchasing a couple of my own. As for DVDs and CD burning, this is excellent. I have made countless CDs of data files and music and have backed up every file on this computer in a matter of minutes for each CD. On DVDs, I use this computer as my television for now, until I move into my new home. I have watched several movies on here and the quality is wonderful, no stutters (unless on purpose in the film) and the sound quality of the speakers that came with the monitor is just perfect for the small area of my room. I have a DVD I own that has visible scratches and scuffs that I was not aware of when I bought the movie, I played it in my computer and it played without any trouble at all, I was amazed. If you are looking for a computer with some serious speed and space behind it, I HIGHLY reccommend this system paired with a hp mx70 monitor, hp7350 printer and hp 5400c scanner. That is the current system I hold and I couldn't ask for more.
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Summary: Extremely Satisfied With This Computer
Review: I recently purchased this hp753n computer from a local Circuit City in my town. I have nothing but wonderful things to say about this system. I am a college student and find myself up late writing papers and surfing the web for research. Currently, I hold a dial up account with AOL and have personally never had trouble with their service. The speed of the processor greatly improved my ability to download software, music and just to get to websites. I used to sit and wait for several minutes to get a graphic-intensive website to open on my old system and now it comes up in a matter of seconds! I used to own an NEC computer with Windows 98 which I gave to my mother, as she has very basic needs on a computer right now. I chose this computer based on the items installed on the system. WordPerfect and RecordNow are 2 of the best programs that were installed from the facotry on this system. I have since installed Office on here among several other items. Coming from a Pentium 2 333Mghz processor to a 2.53Ghz processor was like night and day; the speed is remarkable. I have incredible capabilties with this computer, as I am also a photographer. I have only just begun to experiment with digital photography and find that this computer is an excellent complement to my photographical needs. I have used the programs installed on this computer as well as downloading and purchasing a couple of my own. As for DVDs and CD burning, this is excellent. I have made countless CDs of data files and music and have backed up every file on this computer in a matter of minutes for each CD. On DVDs, I use this computer as my television for now, until I move into my new home. I have watched several movies on here and the quality is wonderful, no stutters (unless on purpose in the film) and the sound quality of the speakers that came with the monitor is just perfect for the small area of my room. I have a DVD I own that has visible scratches and scuffs that I was not aware of when I bought the movie, I played it in my computer and it played without any trouble at all, I was amazed. If you are looking for a computer with some serious speed and space behind it, I HIGHLY reccommend this system paired with a hp mx70 monitor, hp7350 printer and hp 5400c scanner. That is the current system I hold and I couldn't ask for more.
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Summary: newest goodies for the best price
Review: I replaced a three year old Dell with this HP. It was between this one and another Dell. They both had most of the same important basic features, but this one was stock with 512 mb ram, 80 gb hard drive and DVD. The dell was an upgrade from 256, and so was DVD and only a 40 gb hard drive. The price difference was the deal maker. Why pay more for less computer, HP also has good customer service and good products (checked with Consumer Reports), Dell is not all that. It's way fast and Windows XP is very user friendly. It has some nice loaded software like Record Now and WIN DVD, nice 64mb graphics card and plenty of USB ports for all your toys. I'm loving it. Now I just need to save up and replace my old crt monitor with a swanky new LCD flat screen.
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Summary: newest goodies for the best price
Review: I replaced a three year old Dell with this HP. It was between this one and another Dell. They both had most of the same important basic features, but this one was stock with 512 mb ram, 80 gb hard drive and DVD. The dell was an upgrade from 256, and so was DVD and only a 40 gb hard drive. The price difference was the deal maker. Why pay more for less computer, HP also has good customer service and good products (checked with Consumer Reports), Dell is not all that. It's way fast and Windows XP is very user friendly. It has some nice loaded software like Record Now and WIN DVD, nice 64mb graphics card and plenty of USB ports for all your toys. I'm loving it. Now I just need to save up and replace my old crt monitor with a swanky new LCD flat screen.
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Summary: A brief comment on the video
Review: I've been thinking of upgrading my almost 3-year old HP system, which I have been extremely satisfied with, and I was thinking of buying this one. This would be an excellent system for me, overall. It's only weakness is in the video area. I don't play many games, but the Intel Extreme Graphics is roughly equivalent to an nVidia GeForce4 MMX440, which is okay, but not great. This will allow you to run the latest games on average or slightly below average settings, based on my experience. Furthermore, the GeForce4 MX cards are really just GeForce2 card rebranded as GeForce4s, so you're not even getting a GeForce3. I recently bought a GeForce4 MMX440 and so although I consider myself a knowledgeable computer user (I was a PC system and server administrator for 15 years), I'm not up on the lastest graphics stuff, and I got fooled myself on this. But for my needs this card is fine. I might not have spent the extra money for the GeForce4 Ti card, anyway. However, if you want high performance and want to use the games on high settings like full 32-bit color, greater than 640x480 resolution, higher than normal world, character, physics, and texture detail, or with special effects like dynamic lighting, trilinear filtering, halos, and decals, as in the case of Unreal Tournament 2003, and so on, you should get a better video card. Also, this onboard card is PCI, not AGP. AGP is approximately twice the bus speed of PCI for graphics. Another thing I did recently was to compare this system with the Apple iMAC in terms of video performance. But the card there is also an nVidia GeForce2, so I wouldn't do any better there, not to mention the system is almost twice the price of this one, for the same hard disk space and half the memory. So overall, this is a good system at a good price, and would probably be fine for me. And it should be more than adequate for the needs of the majority of computer users.
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Summary: Upset Richard
Review: Very bad choice when I bought this machine. It was not nearly as fast as advertised. The graphics were as bad as the sound. My version had no ability to go into "standby" or "hibernate" modes. When I spent 45 minutes with HP's "support", their conclusion was that something was wrong and all the software should be zapped and replaced. The response to the mouse command was erratic, slow, and sometimes, didn't happen at all.
Needless to say, this loser was returned to where it came from.
Richard
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