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Summary: I got a lemon at first ...
Review: At the time I bought the HP 754n it had just been released and seemed like a good package at a good price. This was November 2002. I bought it and it ran fine, no problems, for about 2 months, but then it went haywire and had all sorts of problems. I had purchased the 3 year on-site service plan at one of the major appliance retailers. I called HP and asked about my in-home service and they laughed at me, I got nowhere. I returned to the store where I bought the pc and said I had got a lemon, and had purchased the service plan. The store manager admitted that there may have been some lemons in the first batch, and switched the pc with a new one of the same model. Since then, no problems, but I'm not sure if I would purchase another HP pc. I have just got a new Sony VAIO and so far I am pleased with it. The HP still works but I do not trust it, specifically its CD-RW drive. It sometimes makes bad copies.
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Summary: lemons or not?
Review: I bought my first HP Pavilion in 1995 had really no problems except operator error, it lasted about 3 yrs before opsolete. I did ok with it, so bought another in 1998 again no problems lasted about 31/2 yrs, so ok new computer every 3 yrs or so, not bad. Was pretty happy with HP, so did it again in 2002, got a 752n brought it home didn't work, so I returned it (maybe dropped or something) got another lasted about 2 months, returned to HP, got another, 2 months later returned again, got another this one lasted 3 weeks. Finally HP upgraded me(in their words)to a 754n bigger hard drive, dvd writer, more ram, sounded good right? Well the computer is pretty good, haven't had any problems so far, but did upgrade to agp graphics card. Only thing I really don't like is the software that came with it, I went from the MS Word package(on the 752n)to the Corel Wordperfect package(on the 754n)all banking on Money, new software was Quicken which really made me mad, as you can go from quicken to money, but not money to quicken, I had to enter everything manually, luckly only 3 months worth. Today(5 months later)still don't like the software, so in process of getting MS Works suite 2003. After all the problems with the HP 752n, I really don't think I'll be getting another, I lost too much when the 752N crashed(Pictures, banking, letters, etc.), but so far the 754N has been working pretty good(knock on wood)we'll see if it goes over 3 yrs, then I might change my mind? of coarse that would also depend on, if HP ever gets good tech support, HP is really lacking in that department.
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Summary: lemons or not?
Review: I bought my first HP Pavilion in 1995 had really no problems except operator error, it lasted about 3 yrs before opsolete. I did ok with it, so bought another in 1998 again no problems lasted about 31/2 yrs, so ok new computer every 3 yrs or so, not bad. Was pretty happy with HP, so did it again in 2002, got a 752n brought it home didn't work, so I returned it (maybe dropped or something) got another lasted about 2 months, returned to HP, got another, 2 months later returned again, got another this one lasted 3 weeks. Finally HP upgraded me(in their words)to a 754n bigger hard drive, dvd writer, more ram, sounded good right? Well the computer is pretty good, haven't had any problems so far, but did upgrade to agp graphics card. Only thing I really don't like is the software that came with it, I went from the MS Word package(on the 752n)to the Corel Wordperfect package(on the 754n)all banking on Money, new software was Quicken which really made me mad, as you can go from quicken to money, but not money to quicken, I had to enter everything manually, luckly only 3 months worth. Today(5 months later)still don't like the software, so in process of getting MS Works suite 2003. After all the problems with the HP 752n, I really don't think I'll be getting another, I lost too much when the 752N crashed(Pictures, banking, letters, etc.), but so far the 754N has been working pretty good(knock on wood)we'll see if it goes over 3 yrs, then I might change my mind? of coarse that would also depend on, if HP ever gets good tech support, HP is really lacking in that department.
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Summary: Good buy
Review: I just bought this PC. On comparison shopping, it came out cheaper than an equivalent (almost) Dell system, and much cheaper than all others. No bundle, just the PC and tiny speakers. Packs a lot of computing power, memory etc for the money.
Nice Soft keyboard & a sensitive optical mouse (cool). XP Home boots up really quick (~ 1 min), but the interface would take some getting used to, for windows veterans. Things have been moved around and hidden from plain sight.Jukebox(preinstalled) is a pain in the you-know-where, and does not run without registering, but is setup as the default player of all music files. More, as I discover...
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Summary: Nice Computer
Review: I purchased this HP about a year ago and I have had zero problems with it. I broke the CD ROM by bumping into it with my chair, HP came to my house and promptly replaced it for free, no questions asked. If I cannot afford an Alienware CPU in the future I will defenitly purchase a HP again.
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Summary: Nice Computer
Review: I purchased this HP about a year ago and I have had zero problems with it. I broke the CD ROM by bumping into it with my chair, HP came to my house and promptly replaced it for free, no questions asked. If I cannot afford an Alienware CPU in the future I will defenitly purchase a HP again.
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Summary: Great price, good system
Review: This is a well-equipped system on almost every level. The one weakness is shared with almost every other retail desktop system sold today: average 3D game performance. A glance through the specs will show you this system has more than most in this price range: fast CPU, lots of memory, big HDD, USB 2.0, Firewire, and a DVD writer. The build quality on most HP home computer systems is very good (for fantastic build quality look at an HPs business class computers). HP has a good engineering relationship with their OEMs and it shows. The one complaint I have (and it is the same complaint with almost all of retail computer systems) is that the out-of-the-box 3D gaming on this system is merely `okay'. For high end 3D gaming you would want to add in a new video card ($...-$...quality setting) and if you don't play 3D games the price/performance/reliability ratio on this system would be hard to beat. Outside of those high-end 3D games I mentioned this system would run rings around any software out there today.
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Summary: Stable PC- HP Pavilion 754n
Review: This PC is great for stability and performance. What I liked was that it had a Pentium 4 2.53GHz cpu with a fast front side bus of 533MHz. This helps out with programs like video editing. Althought I got mine refurbished, the price was great for the product. I built 2 other PCs before and had trouble with various reasons like an overheating cpu. All I can say is that this quiet PC should last you for years. The DVD writer is a great tool for modern PCs these days because you can store home videos and back up large quantities of data. The only slight downside is that the video is integrated so it is OK for gaming. I would recommend buying an AGP video card. The good news is that the hard drive space is 80GB and you can hold a lot of data. I kind of disliked the idea of having a partition of the hard drive. HP should have included recovery discs or something. Other than that this PC is great!
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