HP Pavilion P6230F Black Desktop PC
Saturday, 12. December 2009. 12:31
- AMD Phenom II X4 810 Processor (2.6 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache + 4MB Shared L3 Cache, 4000MHz System Bus)
- 8 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM memory (4×2048 for ultimate performance); Expandable to 16GB
- 750GB (7200RPM) Serial ATA hard drive; SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
- ATI RadeonTM HD 4200 Graphics with 256MB integrated shared graphics memory. Up to 3 GB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows 7
- Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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…. 
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December 12th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
The more appropriate review I should give would concern the way Amazon handled my original order and the time consuming follow-up. I’ll do that if you’ll give me the correct address for it.
Thanks,
E. settle
Rating: 1 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Got this, along with Intel inside, 60-day trial of Outlook and Norton, and 23″ HP monitor, for $699 – from Costco. Too much junk software included, but that’s the price of a good deal.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Windows 7 promised to be the answer to all our problems. Not so! I bought this computer for ham radio logging which requires multiple devices connected by serial connections. The USB serial converters do not work well with Windows 7 at all. I had to buy a RS-232 add on board to get any use at all. The mother board only has room for 3 PCIE devices and one is occupied by the WiFi board.
Something crashes Windows about once per day. I think it is the FTDI connection to my Morse Code keyer. It seems to happen when the computer goes into the sleep mode while a USB device is connected. The serial converter that uses the Prolific chip set will not retrieve data from the connected device when connected by a program written with Visual Basic.
I had to buy a new printer because there is no driver for my Lexmark X63.
But, the computer does work. It is fast and having 8 GB of RAM does make things run well. My needs are not exactly main stream, but I think I might have been better off with upgrading my XP professional computer to 2 GB. At least the serial ports worked.
I think Microsoft is working on Windows 7. I see improvements from time to time. The computer quit crashing every hour or so and now only crashes when going to sleep. I have the wait time for sleep set so long that it only functions when I sleep, so that is better. It would be nice if I knew what Microsoft was working on, but that would require admitting that Windows 7 is not yet ready for Prime Time.
Rating: 3 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Very fast computer with grEAT PRICE! Wow DDD3 memory pgraded from 8 MB to 16 MB!!!!! I bought for %49 from Frys on sale!!!!!! Works great and you can buy three year warranty from Frys for $99!
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
This computer represents what I think is a great value for the money on the current prebuilt scene. I couldn’t come anywhere near this price if I were buying these components separately and then building this machine myself.
It has some preloaded nuisance software that I promptly uninstalled without problems. Per my plan when I purchased it I then gave this machine to my 89 y/o mother whose 6+ year old Dell Windows XP computer now seemed very slow and unreliable. The Windows Transfer Wizard worked beautifully and after an initial adjustment period of a few days she seems to have acclimated to Windows 7 quite well. My support issues with her have all but disappeared.
I was sufficiently impressed that I also purchased another one, this time for my own use in a home/home office environment.
Rating: 5 / 5