Product Review
Specs:
AMD Phenom 9150e quad-core 9150e (1.80 GHz), 4 GB DDR-2 SDRAM, 500 GB Serial ATA, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Edition SP1
The Good:
Decent multithreaded application performance; wireless networking.
The Bad:
Slow general performance and poor multitasker for the price; better to trade Wi-Fi adapter for a more useful desktop feature or more performance.
The Bottom Line:
By sticking a wireless network adapter in a desktop with relatively slow performance for its price range, it almost feels as if HP has phoned in the configuration of this Pavilion a6700y. We can think of few reasons to justify purchasing this PC.
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