Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4784 in Personal Computers
- Color: black
- Brand: HP
- Model: BV528AA#ABA
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.20" h x
4.43" w x
15.91" l,
9.19 pounds
- CPU: Phenom Dual-Core 3.2 GHz
- Memory: 4GB SDRAM
- Hard Disk: 750GB
- Graphics: Radeon HD 3000 1919MB
- Processors: 1
Features
- AMD Phenom Dual Core Processor 3.2GHz
- 4GB DDR3 RAM
- 750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
- ATI Radeon HD 3000
- Windows 7 Home Premium
HP Pavilion Slimline s5730f PC (Black)
Product Description
Save on space but don’t skimp on performance with the HP Pavilion Slimline s5730f PC—this sleek desktop computer handles all of your essential computing needs like word processing, digital music and photos and e-mail, and it lets you easily transfer photos, music, and other files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices with the front-panel 6-in-1 memory card reader. The HP Pavilion Slimline s5730f PC has an AMD Phenom II 511 Dual-Core Processor, a 750GB hard drive and comes with Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and HP MediaSmart Software Suite pre-installed. With HP MediaSmart Software Suite, you can share and browse your photos via Snapfish by HP, burn music, slideshows and playlists to DVDs for sharing or saving and add your favorite music as background to your photo slideshows. Front-access USB ports are within easy reach, and this stylish desktop PC also lets you create custom, silkscreen-quality labels and artwork directly onto LightScribe-enabled CD and DVD discs.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
53 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
By David Becker
Purchased this PC for light use, 95% just email, calendar, and web browsing. The main goal was something small that would be unobtrusive on a desk. The intended user didn't want a laptop, and we already had a nice big monitor to use with it. After looking at all the small form factor desktops available, this seemed like the best value.For perspective, I should mention that I'm a professional software developer and computer systems manager and have made many hundreds of PC purchases and installations since day one of PCs - about thirty years.I was very pleasantly surprised by this PC. The small size sits nicely out of the way at the back of a desk, as expected. What I didn't necessarily expect was:1) Very good performance. With a decent combination of processor, adequate RAM, and Windows 7 operating system, this PC is quick to start up and launches applications (Firefox web browser and Outlook 2010 for email and calendar) almost instantly. Performance will be very good for any normal home or office use. The biggest reason for this is the 4 GB of standard RAM (memory). Most inexpensive systems will have only 2 GB RAM and that can make a very big difference in performance, especially when running two or three applications at once. Since many users will leave their email program open and perhaps have several web sites open as well, this is more important than you might realize!2) Very quiet. The fans hardly every run under normal use so the system is virtually silent.3) Very nice design. The appearance, with the glossy finish and nicely integrated components, is very elegant. One simple, but unusual, design tweak is that the power button is large, illuminated, and is located on top of the unit. This makes it very easy to use and lets you put the unit out of the way while maintaining ease of operation. The color of the illumination changes when the computer goes into standby mode. Nice.Responding to a couple of previous negative reviews:One reviewer complained about the inability to expand this PC by adding a high powered graphics card for high-end gaming. Why on earth would someone choose this system if high-end gaming was the intended use? This is like buying a Prius and then complaining that it won't tow your RV. In fact this system has better graphics capability than is typical for this kind of PC and will work fine for light gaming, viewing videos, etc.Another complaint was about the standard Windows 7 operating system - "And 7 is just a mess. Vague, difficult to navigate menus." Really? Windows 7 is the best reviewed and received version of the Windows OS ever. For most users, it is very easy to navigate and get started with. The performance of Windows 7 on a modern PC like this one is excellent - significantly better than Windows Vista. Using an older version of Windows is not really a great idea, unless you have some very specific reason, such as a mission critical piece of software that can't run under Windows 7 - not a common situation. In any case, you're not going to buy a new Windows PC with any older version of Windows on it - that's not how the world works.As with almost all PCs from major manufacturers, there are a number of HP "custom" programs pre-installed. If you like to choose and acquire your own software for basic photo, music, and other media uses, you will want to remove some or all of these, as I did. That's simple enough to do using the Windows Control Panel. However, many basic users will find these programs useful and won't have any need to replace them. So many users will benefit from them and others will simply move on without them - hardly something that warrants a lot of complaining!One change that I do very strongly recommend for any new Windows PC purchased: Remove whatever security / anti-virus program comes pre-installed on the PC and replace it with the free download of Microsoft Security Essentials. Every manufacturer installs some trial version of security software, such as McAfee or Norton. They do this because the software companies pay them to include these trials, which expire and then hope to lock you in to an endless and costly update subscription. These programs are overly complicated and do slow system performance more than necessary. Microsoft Security Essentials is completely free forever, very simple to work with, updates itself continuously and automatically, has a very minimal effect on system performance, and provides comprehensive protection against virus and spyware. Just Google "Microsoft Security Essentials" - the download and installation only takes a couple of minutes and you're permanently protected - for free.I would recommend this HP Pavilion Slimline s5730f to any typical home user who wants a smaller desktop PC for general use. Buy and enjoy!
54 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
By Pharmboy
Was purchased as a home entertainment center for TV, DVD player and *light* (non-3d) gaming. Haven't fully tested, but have done enough to know it will work fine for that purpose. Only dual core but fast cores, which is perfectly fine for a media player that isn't running multiple apps. Disabled junk apps via uninstall or Spybot - Search and Destroy, installed Media Player Classic 64bit instead. As long as you know the limitations, it is fine for what it is designed for: lower power, good performance media center. That or an email/facebook machine. Keep in mind the video uses some of the regular DRAM, as it has no dedicated video ram. Again, as long as you never intend to upgrade this system (no slots of any kind can be used without removing features) and use it for limited purposes, it's a decent box.Pros: Small, quiet, reasonably fast (4.4 Win experience, 5.2 if you drop Aero). Not for serious crunching, but for a home media player with no heavy 3D gaming, should be perfectly fine. Price was good as a closeout. Dual core limits multitasking, but 3.4ghz means that one or two apps run faster than a 2.9ghz quad. Three separate fans (cpu, power, box) that usually run quietly.Cons: NO RE-INSTALL MEDIA! Came installed with tons of crapware / bloatware. Was stuck on italic fonts (Windows update finally fixed, was a common HP problem). Forget the description, there are NO PCI-X ports that can be used. One has the wifi, the other one is blocked by the power supply, can't upgrade the video, ever. HP's initial "welcome" software is a pain designed for complete idiots and is very obtrusive. Takes a couple of hours to update, cleanup and get "right" enough for a serious user, although all HP's systems are this bloated.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
By Paul Chance
As the previous poster said, this box is not expandable. For Tech Support you will talk to India - what else is new. If you do your research you will find some specsifications that say this has two pci-express slots. And does. And they will say in has 802.11 N wireless "built-in" and it does. What they won't say is one PCI-Express slot is blocked by the power supply and the other slot is used by the wireless card. You can't tell this by looking at the back because you see two blank brackets and the wireless antenna is off to the side. So you think you are getting a box with two PCI-Express slots and you are not. If you want to remove the wireless card and clean it up, you have to cut the zip ties to free the wireless cabling, then zip them back up. To find the end of one cable you have to remove the CD and maybe the hard drive.It comes with OS 7 Home 64 bit and if you upgrade to OS 7 pro 64 bit you void the warranty. If I could have just removed the wireless card and used both pci-express slots I'd be happy. As it is, I will probably return it and keep looking for one that lets me add firewire and a serial card and/or USB 3 via PCI-Express.I gave it three stars because to probably does run according to spec. The con is the specs say there are available slots when there are not, and you can't tell that unless you open the case.
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