HP Pavilion Slimline s3421.nl

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60% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Decent connectivity ; Excellent monitor ; Stylish chassis

Not very powerful ; Limited expansion options

A basic but effective living room PC

HD-DVD/Blu ray combo reader. Wireless networking. Compact and quiet. HDMI port. 15-month subscription to Norton Internet Security. HDMI. Pocket Media Drive bay.

No FireWire port. Crapware.

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Compact. Integrated power supply. Expandable. Pocket Media Drive Bay. 4GB of memory. Nice styling. Wireless networking.

Only a 60-day subscription to Internet security. Half-height PCIe x16 slot. 160W power supply. Some of today's programs can?t run on 64-bit Vista. Weak integrated graphics.

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Reasonable price for a dual-core PC. Compact. Quiet. HP Pocket Media Drive bay for data transport or additional storage. PCIe x16 slot in a compact PC. Wireless 802.11b/g networking.

Could use 2GB of RAM because of shared system memory. Ball mouse.

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Windows XP Media Center in a $500 system. 9-in-1 media card reader. Compact. Desktop-level components. Dual-layer DVD writer with LightScribe label burning. Quiet.

Celeron-M is a little slow for really strenuous multimedia tasks. Only 60 days of Norton Internet Security subscription.

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Small and quiet. Customizability. TV tuner (finally!). Desktop hard drive and optical drive. Built-in wireless networking.

Single-core processor. Single, SDTV-only tuner. A little pricey for its class. Short, 60-day security software subscription. Performance boost of Pentium M over Celeron M not enough to justify cost difference. Requires ugly USB IR receiver.

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Compact with an integrated power supply. Nice (wired) multimedia keyboard. Some good utilities integrated into MCE 2005. FireWire port. 1GB of RAM. Dual-layer DVD writer. Integrated 9-in-1 digital media card reader. Easy-to-use integrated media backup.

Ball mouse. 60-day Norton Internet Security.

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Slim, space-saving tower.

Sluggish processor; lacks HDMI output, Gigabit Ethernet, and wireless networking; insufficient hard drive; limited room for internal expansion.

With poor system performance and a severe drought in features, we recommend leaving this clunker on the shelf and picking up the Gateway SX2840-01, a highly capable budget desktop with a faster processor chip, a bigger hard drive, and a larger variety...

Decent light-duty performance, compact size.

Slim tower case conserves space but offers little room for expansion; limited connectivity options.

The HP Pavilion Slimline s5220y provides adequate performance for light-duty media editing and entertainment, but its slim tower case leaves little room for future upgrades, leading us to recommend the older Gateway SX2800-01 that offers more features...

Friendly-looking new design.

Less upgrade room than competition despite its larger size; too-spare connectivity options; lackluster performance.

As much as we've appreciated HP's efforts in bringing the slim tower to the mainstream, we cannot recommend this off-the-shelf Pavilion Slimline s5120y. Even considering its low price, its design, features, and performance all come up short next to its...