Product Description

Whether you’re surfing the Web, editing photos, mixing your soundtracks or creating your own home videos, HP Pavilion desktop PC’s offer a variety of ways to make your computing experience richer and more rewarding. As you would expect from the leader in consumer PC’s, every HP Pavilion PC includes many intuitive features that make capturing and sharing your digital experiences easier than ever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82 in Personal Computers
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: NY544AA#ABA
• Dimensions: 24.90 pounds
• CPU: AMD Athlon 2.6 GHz
• Memory: 6GB DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 640GB
• Processors: 1

Features

• AMD Athlon II 620 Quad-Core Processor (2.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)
• 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory (3x2048MB for ultimate performance)(expandable to 16GB)
• 640GB (7200RPM) Serial ATA hard drive; SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
• NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Graphics with 256MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 2.9 GB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows 7.
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

From the Manufacturer

IDEAL FOR Creativity and everyday value. Enjoy more entertainment with an affordable PC. Burn music playlists onto CDs, edit and upload photos to online albums, plus create DVDs of home videos.

Processor 2.60GHz AMD Athlon™ II X4 620 Quad-Core Processor Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Memory (RAM) 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Hard Drive 640GB (7200RPM) SATA Optical Drive SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Graphics with 256MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 2943MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows® 7

Multicore Processor Get more power for fast productivity 15-in-1 Digital Media Reader Transfer photos from digital cameras without using cables Front-access USB 2.0 Ports Connect mp3 players, digital cameras and more with minimal fuss LightScribe Technology Burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs INCLUDED

Customer Reviews

Multi-Tasking Powerhouse
Impressive Value! ... Though the 2.6 GHz Athlon II 620 Quad-Core with 2.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache may not be the fastest Processor one can buy at this price level, a second look at the rest of the components this desktop sports will justify the purchase and the enterprise.

With this configuration, You can tell that I am neither a gamer nor a professional film editor; hence a lightning fast firing processor was not what I was after. But my typical work session would include sending and receiving email, uploading, editing and processing photos in Photoshop, downloading movies and watching them, and occasionally using Skype while surfing the net, and at the same time, cleaning and defragmenting the hard disk in the background all at the same breath!

Such seemingly mundane tasks, while appearing innocuous enough, exact a heavy toll on the processing core of the chip; so a lightning fast dual only core would behave like a clueless cheerleader with two left feet; on the turf, she is cute and nimble because she memorizes her routine well, but on the dance floor, she is a klutz who can't chew gum and synchronize her dance movements with her dance partner at the same time!

Enter Quad Core processing power 2.6 GHz; though not the extreme speed that you might want if you were a gamer, it has a superb capability for multi-tasking with ease and agility; and that is where this powerhouse comes in handy; enough speed for most if not almost all applications, and enough multi-tasking processing power for four fraught applications simultaneously with ease and without klutzy performance or staggered inter-lapping allocation of processing power.

The 2 MB level2 cache proved readily and immediately, upon initial use, that it is crucial for the smooth procession of processed data throughout 4 cores, thereby augmenting the capabilities of the processor.

And the 6 GB of memory are the beauty behind this simple yet elegant power-capable configuration, while the fact that the motherboard is capable of handling 16 GB memory expansion put my mind at ease against design obsolescence when faced with Microsoft's unpredictable quirks for memory hungry OS development.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Graphics Card, though integrated as is the custom in this price range, is another extra component that adds to the performance by freeing the processor from the burden of handling power-hungry graphics. An independent graphics card rather than integrated would probably have added about one point to the overall performance rating at about $50.00 added to the price, but then if you had no need for it, it would be an unnecessary expense. I am of the opinion that if your primary use includes a lot of photo and video editing it may be of benefit to you to spend about $50.00 for a powerful graphics card and install it yourself; it is a 5-minute simple job, otherwise the machine as configured is plenty powerful.

All in all, unless you are a gamer, my initial use has convinced me that this machine is very well designed, capable and indeed far superior for the typical workstation user than almost anything else out there within $100 price range, give or take, and bang for the buck, it is a hard act to follow.

Awesome pc for high-definition HD video editing
PROS: My 6 year old Pentium 4 pc at 2.5Ghz and 2 Gigs RAM was too slow to edit my new HD video footage (in 720P AVCHD Lite format) so I upgraded to this new HP quad processor and the HD footage is now smooth and I have no problem multitasking by surfing the web, burning a dvd, and editing an HD home video. The pc never used more than 2gigs RAM even though it has 6gigs RAM. I love the standby button that Compaq and HP pcs have always had so it's always a quick 1-second to turn on and 1 second to turn off.

The keyboard lights up when the pc's awake and turns off when the pc's on standby.

Windows 7 is awesome. When you have multiple windows open on the menubar at the bottom of the screen, hovering your mouse over a window makes it zoom-in to show you what you're about to click on so you don't have to guess if you're clicking on the right window anymore.

This pc has the AMD quad chip instead of the Pentium chip (which would cost about $50-$60 more) but because it can render HD video with ease, I can spend the $50 savings toward a nice dinner or a wireless keyboard/mouse.

CONS: I wish the standby button was a separate button instead of having to hold down a FUNCTION key and the F2 key at the same time. Because the included Windows 7 is 64-bit instead of 32-bit, I had to download the 64-bit drivers for my HP Laserjet 3030 and Laserjet 2600n printers.

No old format PCI expansion slot so if you want to make it wireless, you're better off buying a $30 USB wifi adapter. Also, no old serial or parallel ports but there are 6 USB ports and a firewire port and a bunch of memory card slots (but no SDHC slot).

Simply awesome given the price, very happy
I am a serious software developer and bought this machine for home office (there was a deal on Staples with is $450). It is the cheapest quad-core desktop you can find anywwhere with decent, no-bs configuration (good on-board nvidia video card with DVI, enough memory and hard-drive).

Surprisingly it is quite more powerful than I expected (I use a Intel Q9300 quad-core in the office). This machine is just simply awesome. Now I got Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 dual boot and is happily hacking on my code (I mostly use Ubuntu). Also, this CPU has full VM support so I can run 64-bit virtual machines (watch out some cheap Intel Q8300 quad-core does NOT support VT commands).

By the way, it is also super super quiet. I am very picky on computer fan noises, this one I can't even hear anything. Overall I am super happy with the purchase and would recommend it to everybody.