The HP Pavilion 7950
Written: Aug 16 '01
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Pros: CD Burner, DVD, 128 MB, great video card...HP support
Cons: Windows ME
The Bottom Line: I would recommend this computer, not only for it's performance, but also for it's reasonable cost.
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| Mobie7's Full Review: Hewlett Packard HP Pavilion 7950 (P5158A#ABA) PC D... |
I've had this computer about 2 1/2 weeks and have been very impressed with the changes I find over my old computer. I really like the CD burner and have found it easy to use from the very first CD I created! I was able to transfer pictures from over 200 floppies to the hard drive (to burn on a CD) quickly and efficiently! It was a dream come true... removing the floppy clutter from my desk!
This computer is a 1.3 ghz with a 60 gig hard drive and 128 MB RAM , though I added another 128 mb ram because of the work I do. The DVD drive is an added bonus as a CD rom was all I was looking for. I have found the nVidia video card to be a plus. Everything looks super with this computer, even though I use it with a smaller and older monitor. I have enjoyed the bundled software MusicMatch, and the East CD Creator. I was able to quickly and correctly set up my current e-mail service and ran into no glitches whatsoever in transferring my data from my old computer to the new one.
I was able to load all my software quickly and easily with no glitches.
I create and run PowerPoint programs with numerous pictures, both scanned and digital camera photos. This computer hums along doing what I require of it with no problems. (Quite a change from my old computer!)
The only problem I have run into is the Windows ME operating system sometimes not wanting to read my floppies. An HP customer support rep, lead me through the process to check the floppy drive and informed me of the problem. Windows ME sometimes has a problem reading floppies that were formatted in DOS since ME doesn't use DOS. Once the the floppy drive read the floppies, and I saved the pictures to the hard drive, I've not had anymore problems there. The floppies formatted in ME have caused no problems.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 1049
Operating System: Windows
Processor: AMD Athlon (K7)
Processor speed: over 1000
Internal Storage: CD-RW and DVD
Hard Drive (GB): Over 50
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Member: Lorrie
Location: Ohio
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