Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #16365 in Personal Computers
- Brand: HP
- Model: A6030N
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Original language:
English - Dimensions: 16.28" h x
9.64" w x
6.89" l,
- CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 2000MB DDR2 SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 320GB
- Processors: 1
Features
- Sleek and shiny black-and-silver desktop with 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual-core processor
- 320 GB Serial ATA hard drive, 2 GB RAM (8 GB max), 16x LightScribe DVD-/+RW drive
- Connections: 7 USB, 2 FireWire, digital coaxial audio out, 15-in-1 memory card reader
- NVIDIA GeForce 6150 video/graphics card with 128 MB of dedicated video RAM, 10/100 Ethernet
- Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (with Media Center capabilities)
HP Pavilion A6030N Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4800 Plus, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperMulti DVD Drive, Vista Premium)
Product Description
HP A6030N Pavilion Desktop PC. HP Pavilion desktop PCs include a variety of features that make taking and sharing digital pictures easier than ever. As you would expect from the leader in consumer PCs and PhotoSmart printers, every HP Pavilion PC gives you the tools to make working with digital photos and video clips fun and convenient. Organize, edit, share and protect your digital photos with HP Photosmart Essential. The front panel 15 in 1 memory card reader makes it easy to transfer photos and files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices. HP Pavilion PCs feature the exclusive HP Pocket Media Drive bay that allows you to add instant storage and works with any other USB enabled PC. The SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe technology lets you create custom, silkscreen quality labels and artwork directly onto LightScribe enabled CD and DVD discs. The Windows Vista Home Premium operating system is the preferred edition for home desktop PCs. With extensive digital entertainment features, expanded search capabilities. and the fluid, three dimensional Windows Aero user interface, it provides a truly extraordinary user experience.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Ronen
First of all, just a clarification regarding what I read in the previous review: the machine DOES have USB ports in the front. It has 3 USB ports, one firewire and the 3 standard audio jacks. You just have to open the small panel at the front.Now to the review:I'm a Honda Civic owner. That means that with most things I own, I don't look for the fancy-schmancy bling bling neon lights - I basically want them to work as expected and in a reliable fashion. Therefore I wanted to get a PC that has the right specs and will work out of the box. Yes, I guess as a software engineer I'm capable of building my own machine, but I really don't have the energy for looking for all the components and ending up paying more than with a decent pre-built machine.Therefore, the a6030n is quite a good fit for my needs. It has nice processor-ram-hdd bundle to tackle nowadays tasks and it's relatively (not totally, though) expandable for future enhancements.Things I like:1. This machine is blissfully quiet!! I really adore that. I consider myself quite sensitive to these things. Compared to my old tractor (sorry, PC) this is such a great improvement. And it keeps cool too.2. Size of the box is decent. It's not too small and not too big. You can fit two CD/DVD players (it wasn't such a breeze to install the second one, but oh well), two hard drives (i.e. add another one to the existing one). Enough PCI slots and memory can be upgraded to 8 GB.3. I like the 2 GB memory. It's quite fast (well, I guess w/ Vista it's kind of a must).4. Large (320GB) SATA hard drive works well. Fast and quiet.5. Digital audio output - nice addition.6. It's kind of silly, but I'm really fond of the keyboard keys - they're more like a laptop style, you know, you need to press half the depth as with standard keyboard.Things I don't like:1. The tons of software HP pre-installed. It's really a pain. Especially the Norton Firewall which doesn't really work in a home networking.2. Vista is kind of a mixed bag. The GUI is nice improvement to XP, but there are quite a lot of issues. I still haven't resolved some spontaneous crashes. The sleep button didn't really work at first since the network card would wake up doe to router DHCP messages. Had to set some switch in the Power Management of the the NIC.3. Ball mouse?? Helllllo, it's the 21st century.4. No IDE on motherboard, except for the one already used for the optical drive. I ended up buying IDE-to-SATA convertor for dimes on eBay for my old HDD.This review was written about a month after getting the PC.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By Jennifer
I am really enjoying learning the new Vista operating system. I did have a few snags reloading software and hardware, but for the most part, it went verrrrrry smoothly.The one thing that took me some time to find were the USB ports on the front of the machine! I knew they had to be there but I just was not seeing them--but they are there, under a little flip-up lid. I also thought it weird at first that it came with an expansion bay--I wanted something in there! However, the more I think about it, I can surely buy something cheaper--and get exactly what I want--to use as an additional hard drive. The only other strage thing is that it came with an HP Pocket Media Drive Bay. That's something that I doubt the general public is going to have--or gou buy just because they now have the drive available on the computer (I know I'm not). This computer is also small enough to sit on my desk instead of at my feet (which is wonderful).The one thing that was the worst, however, was the nVidia drivers. I did the automatic updates, loaded all the recommended nVidia updates, and it completely messed up my system, enough so that I had to do a complete SYSTEM RECOVERY (not just a system restore, but RECOVERY). We eventually upgraded the video card so I don't have to worry about it anymore, but that was a major pain.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Yuki Hayes
First off, how the hell are you going to tell me that the computer comes with AMD Athlon and then tell me in the specs that the processor is Intel?Secondly, how the hell are you going to tell me that this computer comes pre-installed with Windows Vista and then tell me in the spec that the operating system of Windows XP Pro?The graphic card being 128MB already is a let down but this whole double spec monkey business is already iffy... Then again, I guess that's HP for you.Also running on DDR2... Guess this game is good if you're trying to play Runescape or Maplestory... Probably not even a good pick for casual uses.
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