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Summary: What an overlooked Proccesser...
Review: Contrary to what the guy with the first review said,this computer is very good.Maybe he had a lemon computer(I had one which ate my files-twice!),but I have this one,and it runs fast as heck,with no internet problems.Contrary to what the Amazon review said,this runs games perfectly fine-Black and White runs perfectly,and that game sucks up a pretty byte!Besides,the power button glows neon blue,how can you beat that.^_^ So if you're on a budget,you'll like this computer!
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Summary: Excellent Performance for the Price.
Review: I got my computer over a year ago and have had no problems with it. The HP handles anything I ask it to do. In 2003, like tons of other computer users, I had difficulties with viruses and trojan horses, but, after switching to Mozilla, this problem became a thing of the past and has nothing to do with the PC I now use. I've found that for photography and word files this model is ideal and offers a high rate of speed. I usually have about 10 windows open, 2 Word files, and MSN messenger and yet I never have any difficulties with crashes. Overall, I can't say anything bad about this model and don't plan on getting a new PC for another few years. I don't care what the new ones look like, this one is functional and saved me some cash (and continues to).
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Summary: The HP A210N Desktop Needs Much Improving!
Review: I purchased a HP A210N Desktop Computer that looked like it had alot for the money. An 80 Gigabyte Hard Drive, CD-RW Drive, DVD-ROM Drive, and lots of downloaded software (much of which you'll probably never use). After three days the modem went bad and I could not connect to the internet. The Celeron Processor may have also been bad because this computer was really slow. Needless to say I returned the computer without hesitation. My old HP Pavillion also had the Celeron Processor and it was much faster (and it only had a 10 Gigabyte Hard Drive). One thing that I didn't like was the fact that there are no Recovery Discs included in the computer box. Apparently Hewlett Packard has the necessary software downloaded so that you can make your own Recovery Discs. For a computer that costs this much, the Recovery Discs should have already been created and been part of the package. There is no excuse for HP to have it's buyers create their own discs when they could easily do it. As far as the CD Writer and DVD section of the computer is concerned, both worked fine. I did find however, that the new Windows XP that was downloaded from the factory had a few bugs that needed to be removed. I would not recommend purchasing this HP model because of the obvious flaws it has. Hewlett Packard could do much better.
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Summary: Average person's review of the a210n
Review: I was skeptical of buying this computer last year because it seemed to have alot of flair but maybe no bite. Boy, was I wrong. As in my usual review tactics, I will review in bullet-style. -THE "NO BACK-UP" ISSUE THAT OTHERS MENTIONED- HEY PEOPLE, READ YOUR LITERATURE! THE SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY BACK-UP WITH THE SOFTWARE THAT'S ALREADY BUILT IN! Only downfall is that it takes up memory, but who cares? Add more! I haven't even used 25% of MY memory yet.
-Processor is fine. It's as fast as you need (If you're impatient like me, then anything more than 1 sec download time is too much!)
-HP web site update support kicks (...)! My wife has an IBM laptop that i tried to update via the IBM website and gave up because of all the disorganization.
-Peripherals are much easier to install when they're HP products, but I've had no problems with other products. Why? Seemless configuration of components.
-Microsoft and HP -- Why do you need anything else?
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: This computer is not bad at all. Yes, there is no recovery disks included and there is no firewire port, but where are you going to get the 48x cd burner and the dvd player for this price? Hp did do a mistake when they sold these computers without recovery disks, but its not just this model, its ALL the models they are selling. In this computer, there is part of the hard drive that is for recovery so the only thing ou have to do if u want to make a backup, just click and drag. Another thing, many reviewers said they had a problem connecting to the internet....?? What is that about? I bought this computer FLOOR MODEL and a bought a Nec Multysync1555v al for about 800. Never looked back. Never regretted it. Even though it was 1 month being floor model, it ran fine. To be exact, it was floor model at circuit city. The computer is not bad at all. What did disapoint me was the lack of a video card. Don't get me wrong. it "has" a video card (how would it not have a video card!) but the video card is intergraded., meaning its basically built on to the mother board. First thing I did when I bought this was buy a 128 mb video graphic card. Improved graphics, but if you dont run programs like macromedia flash, adobe photoshop, and such that I use, you will not notice the difference. Overall this is not a bad computer. If you are shopping, copy the price...the specs...look around... and you know you will come back to order it. A computer this good, at a price this good. It's Grrrrrrrrrreeaaaat
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Summary: You get what you pay for... though in this case you get less
Review: This is not a budget conscious machine - HP evidently decided to make up on the price by loading this machine with so much annoying proprietary garbage that the computer constantly is lighting up with my network connection trying to send information about me to HP or someone else who paid for space on my desktop. Given the technical characteristics of the machine, I expected it to be a reasonably fast machine for what my child needs it for - basic web surfing, email, etc. We have several much older machines on our home network, including two with less than half the memory and processor speed, but they are strangely much faster than this nice looking but poorly performing piece of... anyway, I would strongly recommend spending an extra one or two hundred to get a real machine, probably from a real manufacturer. Of the big ticket ($500 or more) items I've bought from HP in the past two years, they're 0 for 3. I don't think there will be a number 4.
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Summary: This Computer Sucks
Review: This system is very slow mainly because it is loaded with tons of spyware that hogs system resources. You think popups are bad on the internet, just wait until you get them when you're not even connected to the web. That's right, HP has advertisments sliding in from the side of the screen at all times. This system also monitors your web habits and sends info back to HP. Are you interseted in getting rid of the operating system (a proprietary version of XP made especially for HP that is slow as hell), well forget it. HP support offers zero drivers for this system and does not support you if you install any other OS, that includes your own copy of XP. No other OS is possible, no drivers exist anywhere, no support for anything other than the marketing bs system in place, no reformatting of the hard drive, zilch. I have my old system in the same office that has a 333mhz proccessor and 96 megs of ram and it's faster than this new HP Pavilion a210n! We're talking about marketing gone very wrong here folks, the main goal of this PC is to market to you. This computer sucks hard, stay away from it. That's my advice.
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