hot or not?

Appleseed

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Ripped this from TB. Best Buy has this pc for 699 after instant rebate/sale thing. Aparently ends tonight. I looked on hp's websight for info and best as i can tell it has a hauppage card, just not sure wich one though, maybe the mce250. Its what im guessing anyway.... can anyone confirm which one it is or if nothing else give your oppinion on the value of the computer.

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Delbert

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Wow, this sounds like a good deal to me if it's all there. Promedias, win XP MCE, 200 gig drive, DVD burner....I couldnt get your link to work but I just did a search for the sku of:
5823166

 

Delbert

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ack! $52 for the cheapest shipping for me. I'd better hope in store pickup is an option.

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Some things are wacky here under network card it says"Harman/Kardon 2.1 three-piece speaker system".

Is it going to have klipsch or harman/kardon speakers?
 

RossMAN

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Hewlett-Packard Media Center Desktop with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.0GHz

Model: m280n-b

Boost your productivity, your possibilities and your fun with a DVD burner, built-in personal video recorder, vast 200.0GB hard drive and 6-in-1 media reader.

>> Watch and record live TV! Learn more about Windows XP Media Center Edition.

* Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 3.0GHz with Hyper-Threading Technology for improved multitasking performance; 800MHz frontside bus
* 512MB DDR SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 4.0GB
* DVD+RW/CD-RW drive; 16x maximum speed DVD-ROM drive

Product Features

From our expanded online assortment; not available in all Best Buy retail stores

512KB L2 cache for efficient system processing

200.0GB Ultra DMA hard drive (7200 rpm)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 8X AGP graphics card with 128MB DDR video memory, TV and DVI capabilities; line input/output; Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy sound card; 3-piece Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX-certified speaker system, 200-watt output; surround sound

PVR (personal video recorder) functionality with hardware encoder; compatible with cable, digital cable, satellite TV and antenna

Front-panel 6-in-1 media card reader supports CompactFlash Type I/II, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard and IBM Microdrive

6 high-speed USB 2.0 ports and 2 IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interfaces for fast digital data transfer and easy peripheral connectivity

Integrated 10/100Base-T networking interface; V.90 high-speed data/fax modem

Wireless HP Media Center keyboard with full multimedia control; wireless optical mouse

Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system preinstalled; software package included with photo, video, entertainment, productivity and finance software, such as HP Memories Creator, ArcSoft ShowBiz DVD, InterVideo WinDVD SE and Quicken 2004

Intel, Pentium, Celeron, Centrino, Intel Inside, and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

Product Details

Warranty Terms - Parts 1 year limited

Warranty Terms - Labour 1 year limited

Product Height 15.75"

Product Width 8.3"

Product Weight 35 lbs.

Product Length 15.75"

Processor Brand Intel® Pentium® 4 with Hyper-Threading Technology

Processor Speed 3.0GHz

System Bus 800MHz

Cache Memory 512KB L2 cache

System Memory (RAM) 512MB

System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 4.0GB

Type of Memory (RAM) DDR SDRAM

Hard Drive Type Ultra DMA (7200 rpm)

Hard Drive Size 200.0GB

Video Memory 128MB DDR

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 8X AGP

MPEG Yes

Audio Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 24-bit sound card with Dolby Digital 5.1 and analog surround sound

Speakers Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 three-piece speaker system

Modem 56 Kbps* ITU V.90 *Capable of receiving 56 Kbps downloads. However, current regulations limit download speed to 53 Kbps.

Network Card Harman/Kardon 2.1 three-piece speaker system

DVD-ROM Drive Yes

Maximum DVD-ROM Drive Speed 16x

DVD-RW Drive Yes, DVD+RW/CD-RW drive

DVD-RW Drive Speeds Drive speeds not available

Diskette Drive Yes

Diskette Drive Type 3.5" 1.44MB

Total Expansion Bays External: 1 (3.5"), 2 (5.25"); Internal: 2 (3.5")

Available Expansion Bays No available expansion bays

Total Expansion Slots 3 PCI, 1 AGP

USB Ports 6 USB 2.0

Parallel Ports 1

IEEE 1394 Ports 2

Serial Ports 1

Game Ports None

Keyboard Description Wireless HP Media Center keyboard with full multimedia control

Other Control Devices (mouse, etc.) Wireless optical mouse

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition

Software Included ArcSoft PhotoImpression, ShowBiz DVD; HP Print Creator, Memories Disc Creator; Greeting Card Creator; WordPerfect Productivity Pack (WordPerfect 10, Quattro Pro 10); InterVideo WinDVDRecordNow, Musicmatch Jukebox; Quicken New User's Edition 2003 and more