Langy

Need a bit of advice, my work is doing an offer that I can get one of these for a good deal, does anyone have one or could anyone give me a bit of advice on how good it is?

It's a HP Pavilion 763.UK to this spec


Accessories:
hp wireless keyboard and mouse
hp pavilion f50s 15'' flat-panel display monitor

Communication
High speed V.92 data/fax modem
10/100BT interface

Entertainment
InterVideo WinDVD
HP RecordNow powered by Veritas
Pinnacle Studio DV

Memory
1GB DDR-SDRAM
2 DIMM sockets

Ports & expandability
5 expansion bays (free: 1 x 3.5'' internal)
1 AGP
3 PCI (2 PCI free)
5 USB 2.0 ports (2 in front)
1 parallel port
1 serial port
2 IEEE ports (1 in front)

Processor
Intel® Pentium® 4 – 2.8GHz
Intel® i845G chipset
533MHz bus speed
Level 2 cache 512KB

Productivity
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Microsoft® Works Suite 2003
Microsoft® Word 2003
Microsoft® Works Standard 7.0
Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2003
Microsoft® Money 2003
Microsoft® Picture It!® Photo 7.0
Microsoft® AutoRoute Europe 2003
Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft® Outlook® Express
Adobe® Acrobat™ Reader 5.0
Symantec™ Norton AntiVirus 2003™

Sound
Integrated AC '97 sound solution
Polk audio MM20 Active stereo speakers with subwoofer

Storage
120GB Ultra DMA hard drive
incl. 4GB partition for system recovery
dvd-rom 16x max.
hp dvd writer dvd200i +R/+RW
Floppy drive 3.5'' 1.44MB

Video
NVIDIA GeForce MX-440
128MB dedicated video memory

Warranty
Three year parts and labour

They will also throw in a free ADSL PCI card with this deal

All opinions welcome

Cheers

DemonDave

iTrader: (13)

Personally don't like HP machines as I have had to replace too many parts in friends machines in the past.

Failing that you haven't given an idea of a price. That would determine if it was any good. If you are paying £100 then yes £2000 then no

Dave.

ChrisB

As Dave says, approx how much?

Not a bad general purpose Office/Internet PC but the GF4MX Video isn't a speed demon for games. What's the planned use?

Langy

The price is worked on a flex scheme basis from my salary, they take £34.92 off my gross per month, which makes the total price £838.08 less any tax savings.

It's basically going to be used for general home use, a lot of internet use, and some games use but I usually just use the PS2 for games

Cheers for the advice guys

Any more info based on the above would be great

DominicA

As far as CPU/RAM/DVD is concerned, great.

Grahpics will be ok for the odd game but not as good as a proper Geforce4 or Radeon (can always be replaced at a later date anyway).

HD size is good and te rest seems ok as well....

Langy

Cheers again, i'll just tell them i'm taking it then