Well, I haven’t been posting much over the past two weeks. Had a lot on my plate at home and at work, but I wanted to post my experience with my wife’s new HP!
So yesterday I purchased, via the Best Buy cyber monday advertisement, the following for 500 dollars.
HP Pavilion Desktop with Intel? Pentium? Dual-Core Processor E2220
HP multimedia keyboard and HP optical mouse
Software
HP Photosmart Essential, Cyberlink DVD Suite Deluxe, Microsoft Works 9 and more
Product Features
Intel? Pentium? Dual-Core processor E2220
Featuring an 800MHz frontside bus, 1MB shared L2 cache and 2.2GHz processor speed.
3GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
SuperMulti DVD?RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support,Supports DVD-RAM and LightScribe direct-disc labels using compatible LightScribe media.
320GB Serial ATA hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 7100 graphics
Featuring Turbocache technology, 128MB of dedicated graphics memory and up to 1343MB total available graphics memory as allocated by Windows Vista. High-definition audio for crisp, clear surround sound.
Front-panel 15-in-1 media reader
Supports CompactFlash Type I/II, Secure Digital, mini Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, MultiMediaCard Mobile, MultiMediaCard Plus and Reduced-Size MultiMediaCard (RS-MMC).
Also supports Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, SmartMedia, xD-Picture Card and Microdrive.
2 IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interfaces and 6 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system with Service Pack (SP1) preinstalled
Software package included with Photosmart Essential and more. 60-day trial version of Microsoft Office Home and Student also included.
Over all I was very surprised with the absence of bloat ware. Granted I had to uninstall MS-Works and install Office, but I had very few issues with the software installed and the only other thing I removed was the Yahoo toolbar.
But it was really a flawless setup. I was out of the box and running in about 30 minutes. I took 10 minutes to install the wirelees card and then another hour configuring network, internet, setting up shares, and copying the profile stuff from the old PC.
But compared to companies like, Lenovo, Dell, and Gateway, HP has a suprising absence of bloat ware.
It seems HP is suddenly back on track with their PCs.
Did I luck out with HP or has anyone else noticed a similar trend?
