HP Pavilion Media Center m8330f

[CES 2008] AMD’s Phenom is getting some love from HP with this m8330f Media Center PC. Obviously, it has a NTSC/ATSC TV Tuner, 3GB of RAM, 640GB (2×320) of storage and a video-friendly GeForce 8500 GT graphics card. However, it lacks the High Definition disc player. I guess that it is the price to pay to be below $1000, which might be surprising for a Quad-Core PC.

The 3GB of RAM are a judicious choice, because that is pretty much what Vista 32 can use. Other manufacturers will be releasing 4GB computers with 32-bit operating system, but we think that Vista 32 isn’t very good at dealing that amount, turning the last GB into somewhat wasted money that could be used to buy a HD optical disc…

Highlights

• AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core Processor
• 3GB RAM
• 640GB (2×320) HDD
• NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
• NTSC/ATSC TV Tuner (+media center remote)
• HP m8330f Product Page
• $959

Hubert Nguyen
Categories: Computers
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