Desired price range?

Take a look around the forum for other threads on Cyber Power PC, people haven't had a very good time with them. I would recommend staying away from that company.

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I have an HP m7690y Media Center. The current version is the m8010y which has some upgrades and a new all gloss black case (mine is silver). I really like it, yes the video card (nVidida 7300LE) weak, but the machine is now almost 6 months old, and in computer age, that is middled aged, expecially considering the Vista changes. Vista runs fine.

I was just on the HP website and they have a new model, d4890y which has the other media center case that takes the smaller Personal Media Drive and all the doors are horizontal. Mine has the two vertical doors, one for the front panel connections and the other for the larger PMD. This new model offers the nVidal 8800GTS video card as an option! Granted, its a $500 upgrade, but then it does show that HP is paying attention to the market.

HP also now offers the 64bit Vista Ultimate as a pre-install and 4GB of memory. I also just over the weekend noticed on their high end dv9500t laptop that they offered the nVidia 8400M GS and 8600M GS video cards with 383MB and 511MB memory respectively. (Wierd memory numbers, I wonder where the missing MB went).

One thing I like is that all the components, except the case are standard off the shelf. Even the mobo is an ASUStec P5 series, although Belarc Advisor reports it as a Broadwater. Expandable and upgradable with standard parts!

For serious gamers, they redirect to the VooDoo PC website. I know nothing about them, and do not know what the HP/Voodoo connection is.

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