Title: Cheap, cut-corner design
Review: My employer (a small software company) just bought these for all the developers (including myself). They're barely faster than the Athlon XP 2000+ workstations they replaced. HP cut several corners with this model:- There are no available internal or external drive bays- The power supply is only 250W- They skimp on the RAM, using DDR333 instead of DDR400 despite the 800FSB processor- The hard drive is mounted in a bizarre plastic vertical bracket which isn't very secure and tends to vibrate- There are no CDs included with the system (except one Microsoft Works disc). There are no restore CDs, let alone Windows install discs (but my Pavilion ze4240 notebook I bought a year ago came with both--shame on HP for backing down on that).Since the systems shipped with XP Home and we need Pro, we reformatted the hard drives. And now we have no way of installing the DVD burning software that came with the systems. HP wants $9 for an HP RecordNow install disc.
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