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HP Pavilion Slimline S5120F Desktop PC
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Product Description
The HP Slimline offers a powerful PC where space is at a premium. Perfect for a small office or dorm, it can handle all your computing needs, like e-mail, word processing and more. And the Slimline is flexible, so you can easily add or upgrade features and functions. The HP Slimline¿s sleek, modern styling, with chrome and accent lighting, looks great in any room. What's in the box: Pavilion s5120f desktop PC, HP USB keyboard, HP USB optical mouse, power cord, Cyberlink DVD Suite Deluxe software, HP MediaSmart Software Suite, Microsoft Works 9, Adobe Reader 8 and Norton Internet Security 2009 with 60 days of complimentary live updates.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #917 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: Hewlett-Packard
- Model: NP187AA#ABA
- Dimensions: 12.24" h x 4.43" w x 15.91" l, 9.20 pounds
- CPU: AMD Athlon 2.7 Hz
- Memory: 4GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 500GB
Features
- AMD Athlon X2 7750 Dual-Core Processor
- 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2x2048MB for ultimate performance)
- 500GB hard drive (7200 rpm) stores up to 106,000 songs or 84,000 photos.
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition
- NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Graphics with 128MB intregrated shared graphics memory.
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
Want a smaller PC that has everything you need and want? Buy an HP Pavilion Slimline PC. Create documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, music playlists and home videos. At under 5 inches wide, this PC is an easy fit for any office or room.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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2.70GHz AMD Athlon™ X2 7750 Dual-Core Processor
Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit Edition
Hard Drive:
500 GB
Memory (RAM):
4 GB
Disc Drive:
SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
Graphics Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Graphics with 128MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 1343MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows Vista®
Networking:
Wired LAN
PERFORMANCE ANYWHERE YOU NEED IT
The HP Slimline offers a powerful PC where space is at a premium. Perfect for a small office or dorm, it can handle all your computing needs, like e-mail, word processing and more. And the Slimline is flexible, so you can easily add or upgrade features and functions. The HP Slimline’s sleek, modern styling, with chrome and accent lighting, looks great in any room.
- Backed by HP’s award-winning Total Care service and support.
- Sophisticated styling gives the Slimline the look of a top-price PC.
- Protected by Norton Internet Security 2009: Protect your PC out of the box(1).
- The front-panel 6-in-1 memory card reader makes it easy to transfer photos, music, and other files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices.
- The SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe technology lets you create custom, silkscreen-quality labels and artwork directly onto LightScribe-enabled CD and DVD discs.(2)
HP MEDIASMART SOFTWARE SUITE
Your one-stop multimedia & entertainment center to create photo slideshows, share personal videos, listen to your favorite music playlists & watch DVD movies.
THE WORLD'S FAVORITE PC
HP computers are designed to perform and built to last; that’s why we’re the world leader in consumer PCs. HP has sold more than 60 million consumer PCs since 1998—more than any competitor—and won more PC Magazine Editors’ Choice Awards than any other company.(3)
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CAPABILITY MEETS POSSIBILITY
The 64-bit edition of Windows Vista® Home Premium is for serious computer users who have advanced high-performance needs.(4) This latest edition integrates Windows Vista innovation with cutting-edge PC hardware to deliver expanded memory, stronger security, and enhanced reliability. Security features such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Microsoft PatchGuard offer additional protection against a wide range of threats, while increased memory improves the performance of applications with heavy memory demands. Windows Vista includes the latest operating system improvements and enhancements from Microsoft.
(1) Internet access required. First 60 days included; subscription required for live updates afterwards.
(2) Actual speeds may vary. Does not permit copying of commercially available DVD movies or other copyright-protected materials. Intended only for creation and storage of original material and other lawful uses. Double Layer is a new technology. Double Layer media compatibility will widely vary with some home DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. 16x max DVD-ROM drive data transfer rates up to 6,000 KB/s (CD read) and 21,632 KB/s (DVD read).
(3) Based on highest volume of PCs sold. Source: IDC WW PC Tracker, December 2008 (HP #1 PC).
(4) Certain Windows Vista product features require advanced or additional hardware. See www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/hardwarereqs.mspx and www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx for details. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features of Windows Vista will run on your computer. To download the tool, visit www.windowsvista.com/upgradeadvisor.
Customer Reviews
Perfect for light home use
The largest segment of computer users are primarily web browsers who use the occasional Office application. If that's you then this is a really good choice. It's small, well featured, and very well built. I've had a few opportunities to use these HP Slimline computers and I've been able to give them a good look over. The build quality is really good - on par with their higher end Pavilions and much better than their Compaq line.
Spec wise it's a good machine for a home user:
A solid dual core CPU. The AMD Athlon X2 7750 is a good choice for home users - not so powerful that it needs a lot of [loud] cooling but powerful enough to keep several apps going at once without noticing any slowdown. My min spec for any computer purchase is at least a dual core CPU so you can run your internet security suite in the back ground without your web browser grinding to a halt.
4GB is more than enough ram, which means you are future proofed a bit.
500GB Hard drive. Again, more than most users need but that just means you're less likely to run out of space. Unless you do a lot of video editing your aren't likely to need more space than this anytime soon. (I know maybe three or four non-gamers using more than 200GB of HDD space.)
The NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE graphics is probably my least favorite component here. The performance is a little better than the Intel embedded graphics but not by much. You can't do any serious gaming with it and Nvidia has had some reliability issues. However that's been with higher end products and this one is almost certainly fine. Still, not my first choice (all things being equal I'd suggest ATI for graphics right now).
Let me be clear: there not much you can upgrade on this computer. It's difficult to upgrade the graphics (it requires a low profile card), there's only room for one HDD, and while you can replace the memory and cpu I don't recommend pushing that too far (slimlines have a very narrow thermal profile and it's easy to end up with a box that gets too hot). As long as you are okay with that, and don't plan on doing any heavy gaming then this is a far better choice than plopping a big ugly box on your desktop.
Oh and since this is a good dorm computer... if you are a student check out HP's "Academy Program" on their web site (Google "HP Academy", it's too hard to find from HP's site). You may be able to get a student discount on this or something like it.
Excellent machine for the average home user - Non Gamer
I've always built my own gaming machines, but for the wife & kids, this one fits the bill perfectly. It's very cheap, hard to build something decent yourself at this price. Small model, saves space on the desk, which is always a plus. Good enough hardward for browsing, casual gaming ( such as yahoo games) and light application use.
As with most name brand machines, you can't do much upgrading to it, most of the parts are specifically made for them, so you can replace anything, and with the small form, you can add anything internally. Though for most common use, the specs that's already on the machine is plenty.
One common problem with all name brand machines - Junkware. They preload a whole bunch of stuff on these machines that makes the start and overall running very slow, takes you a bit of time to go in and uninstall everything. You can consider using norton 360 and use that to remove all the un-necessary startup programs.
Wanted to take out 1/2 a star for this issue below:
Keyboard & mouse, the 2pcs that comes with the machine is really poor quality, makes a 60wpm typer go 40wpm. Though it's understandable @ $399 retail price, it's hard to justify including a nice set of KB & Mouse. Instead of including something that very few will use and makes the machine look bad, rather they just exclude it completely, only creates extra waste.
Excellent machine for a regular user!
I bought one as a media server for my PS3. This machine runs fine and has excellent performance for the price. I like it so much I bought one for my father who is a casual user. He spends most of his time watching foreign tv stations and listening to foreign radio stations on the internet. He lovs it, particularly it's compact size.
I should clarify that on my unit I run Windows 2003 Server and it is adequate to the task. My father's machine is running Vista and it is about 10-15% less in performance.
