[Scgeeks] Re: Opinion wanted on new PC

[Ian Smith]

indigo wrote:
> anyone have any trouble with HP Pavilion desktops?
> 
> 

Bought one a few weeks ago - the cheapest they have available.

Quite excellent quality. Big fans, quiet.

Was loaded with Vista (!) and I've had a few problems with that.

The only problems I've had are that:
- there is no printer port, so my old trusted Laserjet 6L is heading 
for the bin
- there are no Vista drivers for my scanjet scanner, so that's been 
binned too.

Ironic really - new HP machine, so had to throw away my HP printer 
and HP scanner and I bought Canon to replace both of them!

It came with 1GB, which isn't really enough for Vista. I've added an 
extra 2GB to give me 3GB. Vista and a few background applications 
(Slimserver etc) settle down to using about 1.3GB

I', very happy with it. The twin-core 1.6GHz processor leaves my old 
3.8GHz machine for dead.

regards, Ian