Just bought the new HP Pavilion

[richard1997jones]

My old Toshiba died after several near deaths. So R.I.P Toshiba and hello HP. What a machine, it cost £399 which I'll admit its a bit pricy but for a 1000 gb and 8gb of ram this is amazing. It's hard to believe less than 5 years ago a desktop would bearly have this kind of power. It also looks beautiful. Anyone else have one of these?

 

[yoječ]

1TB and 8GBs of RAM for £399 is nothing amazing if the rest of the specs are crap (which I assume they are, though you didn't specify an exact model of the Pavilion)

[Norsea]

What type of processor does it have?

[Slamman]

I got one too, P2 to be exact, HP Pavilion hybrid based on AMD Vision E300, and sadly, though it's pretty neat, handles DDR3, DVI output and comes with Windows 7 Home Premium on a 500GB HDD.... It's really an entry level version, there are maybe three versions of the E Vision series mine falls under, and for multimedia, with good memory, the CPU falls short, way short! It's a hybrid in that it runs off a laptop AC jack rather then a power supply, the case is a small tower fitting the miniATX cabinet style. Very lightweight however.

 

The thing that amazes me, these are going for fairly costly asking prices, near $200, which mine was listed at, but got liquidated from a pawn shop for $20USD... No lie

 

Just for a 500 gig drive, that's rather impressive. They had two available, I was going to buy both, but the next day it had sold (the second one)

I think most modern computers starting with two DIMM slots can handle a maximum of 8GB, 4GB in each slot.

 

HD Radeon is built into the CPU [APU as it's called] , but it's really anemic, sad to say. It's defeating the DVI purpose if you ask me,

 

Here's a store web page with this same model, mine looks the same, this might be a bump up in performance however;

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/20-desktop-pc-bndl-20-pc-bundle/prod7910129.ip

 

Aside from mine, the newest desktop I own, for sure, But not the most powerful... I think the OP is talking laptop since Toshiba really doesn't make any desktop PCs that I've ever come across.

Edited May 2, 2014 by Slamman

[TheMcSame]

I've got one, it ain't that powerful though.

This is basically what mine is, I can't find the original one so I think they took it off or something... http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/refurbished-laptops/hp-pavilion-15-e092ea-refurbished-15-6-laptop-red-21750328-pdt.html

 

I had a problem with the HDD a few months ago and they put a 1TB HDD instead of putting another 750GB in .

Edited May 5, 2014 by TheMcSame

[richard1997jones]

It's a HP Pavilion 15-n276sa 15.6” Laptop - Red

[yoječ]

Actually, it doesn't seem too bad. Nothing stellar either.

[Slamman]

Most HPs are designed from the motherboard level to afford discrete graphics as I've found with several DV and Elitebook/ P and W series, that's Workbook and Pro by the way. To find out if you have that support, a scan of your internals or validation with your own eyes is necessary, but what I'm wondering about is upgrade choices. I haven't done any card swapping that worked so far, but it's also designed primarily for either newer Aero Windows support, Multimedia in general, or business graphic requirements. Not gaming, unlike Dell's approach since the XPS systems bowed