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HP Media Center M490N Desktop PC (3.4 GHz Pentium, 512 MB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD+R/RW)

HP Media Center M490N Desktop PC (3.4 GHz Pentium, 512 MB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, DVD+R/RW)

List Price: $2,322.00
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best of best
Review: I am very happy with this HP media Center.What more can I ask? I can watch TV, record TV same time if I wanted to by pushing the record button on my remote control.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: At your own risk
Review: This whole MediaCenter serie still needs a lot of improvements. The computer is decently priced but the applications are not all integrated with the MS MediaCenter. The MC application is often buggy and often crashes. It also makes use of additional external apps very hard. The motherboard on mine was faulty and made the computer unable to reboot after 2 weeks. Even the front bezel was defective. I noticed that the same problem was noticeable on demos in stores. Also, don't expect external soundcard or video card to be compatible...i learned it the hard way with my creative card.

To top all this, HP Support is mediocre at best. They ask you to ship them your computer and return it back to you a week later with no comments, no names of repair person, and even in my case missing parts that got stolen. You won't know what they tried to repair and just hope they didn't wipe your hard disk for no reason.


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