Looking for a new desktop PC?  Now's your chance...   From the prices on HP's website, you would think they are having, "a going out of business sale."

I just priced out an 8 core amd, with 8 gigs of ram, and a 1 terabyte 7200 rpm hd, and the 2 gig hd radeon card...   $619...

WOW....

and that was, "off the shelf," no customizing..   The machine you can customize for lets call it, "$1,000." 

Seriously..   Now's the time to shop all the big PC makers..  hp, dell, lenevo..   These companies are like, "loosing to smartphone/tablet war," in the worst kind of way.

pics or it didn't happen.

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DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM HP!
 
You will not get support, no drivers, and you will get stuck. IF you do ... wipe it all off, and install your own ... do NOT allow HP software to run a muck as it has the nastiest habits ever ... always interrupting things, and checking to see if the armchair rest has any new spam to show you!
 
All in all, I can still build a computer for less than the $600 you mentioned and it would have the same if not better stuff in it. Hopefully they are not using yesterday's left over motherboards that you can get for $29 dollars now at Fry's and other places!
 
IF ... they allow you to buy the computer WITHOUT the software and NO WINDOWS (for example), then it might be worth while ... and you do not have to put up with the worst software design people I have ever seen. I had to get a friend of mine (works for Cisco now) rewrite the drivers for my HP scanner, and even he said some not so nice things about it!

Is that your FINAL answer?

Many of the usual companies no longer sell laptops, they only sell sales kiosks.  Just nuke the bloatware and start from scratch.

Mesh


Is that your FINAL answer?

Wow..  He totally just killed Hewlett Packard for me.

Yeah, but he's pretty much right. I'm planning on building a DAW and wouldn't want to trust much of the parts/software HP is offering on this.....when I can get better parts for about the same cost.

Four of the 5 computers I've owned have been HPs. Never had any of the problems Mosh described.

Most company's computers you buy come w/ all kinds of extraneous crap on them - well, their hard drives anyway.

Never have had a problem w/ HP's hardware.  And the other stuff can be taken off the hd.  My favorite was an old SONY I had.  I put a copy of XP on it (like HP, their disk rewrites the entire HD) but I had to dig through the SONY disk to find the fan drivers.  Otherwise it sounded like a plane taking off the fan spun so fast.

BTW, the SONY still works tho it has been through 3 hd's.
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The DELL  laptop I am currently on has been with us now for 6 and a half years...still works like  trooper.