I recently purchased this machine. I found that the machine was well out together and have no real issue with the quality of the machine. I like the card slots and ports available on the front.

However, when the machine was opened up I found that HP did not include any port to upgrade to a video card! Incredible, that this would be missing on a computer in this price range and perfomance.

I also found that the power supply is only 250watts. For a pentium 4 class computer this is a cheap way to degrade an otherwise good design.

If I had purchased a bargain basement computer from a local supplier I would have concluded I got what I paid for. This is not something I woud expect from a "high end" computer from HP.
Had I known these issues existed I would not have purchased this model.

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Well, first of all let me say that the mini is a relatively large amount of power packaged in very little space. Everything is extremely easy to install and if you get the wireless mouse and keyboard you will be saving a USB port, which is always a good thing.

There are a couple of things that could have been done better. For instance, the RAM, 256 M of Ram is a joke for any system using the OS Tiger, I am sure a lot of people are frustrated because their minis do not perform as they should. Low RAM is a major bottleneck on Tiger; the thing is so big and powerful that anything lower than 512 will hamper your system.

Anyways, after upgrading the ram on the mini I configured it as a small server for a couple of Sites I had to get online and I think it is performing superb. I dint have to spend a cent on extra software (I am using Apache and PHP, both are free and work great on the UNIX based Tiger OS), and my cable Internet connection is up to the task of keeping the sites running smoothl...

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