Hewlett Packard Pavilion 9694C PC Desktop

Pros: FAST, FAST, FAST
Cons: Maybe price.... little bugs in the thing.

This is the first time I have ever bought a "manufactured" pc. A friend of mine taught me how to build a pc so I built my own and used that for about 2 years. It came time to upgrade and I decided that I wanted to upgrade to an Athlon...

Pros: Speed, lots of toys.
Cons: DSL modem can't be used, serial port on front doesn't work.

We actually bought this computer on Ubid, it was refurbished. We have had a pretty good experience with the computer all together. It is amazingly fast, even with all of the programs I will have running at the same time. My fiance' calls me the "RAM...

Pros: DVD,CDRW,Fat hard drive, fast
Cons: freezes up, has problems with ethernet card

After having nightmares with several "no name" computers, I hit the local CompUsa. Having had a bad past with Compaq, and knowing emachines to be low-end, I picked up the 9694C.
The DVD and CDRW option is nice. I wish HP would have...

Pros: High speed, DVD, CDRW, DSL modem, Athlon processor
Cons: Slow CDRW, $100 more for a 850Mhz ???

800 what a nice round number, its even fun to say........ The 9694 is right along with the rest of the 9600 series PC's about to be replaced with the new 9700 series PC's. Now thats not saying that they are obsolete, far from it. I dare anyone to tell...

Pros: Fast
Cons: Locks up constantly

Well, I bought this computer thinking "WOW.. look at the hard drive, CD-R, DVD-ROM, etc..etc..". Well, first of all, the computer has NEVER been able to detect info from the printer (I've tried the printer on other computers to see if it was the printer...