HP Pavilion M8400F Desktop PC
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The HP Pavilion Media Center M8400F desktop PC is designed and built for your digital life. Take control of your digital entertainment with a PC that helps you consolidate, organize and play your favorite movies, music, photos and videos. The front-panel 15-in-1 memory card reader makes it easy to transfer photos and files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices. The SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe… Product details and pricing info |
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19 Customer Reviews Posted
- Quad-core screamer
- This is quite a step up from my previous systems. Very fast. No problem performing multiple tasks. Much better than average video card. Two 360 gig hard drives. Fast is the word. All-in-all a great system that is fun to use. Highly recommended.
GerryO - 2008-09-23, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Bad documentation, no connector
- It is one of the things that drive consumers crazy. M8400f with the Nvidia 8500 GT card does not have a VGA connector. You need a DVI cable or VGA-DVI adapter. Not a big deal but no warning until you come home and try to assemble. Horrible first impression. I hope to come back and update to a better review.
UPDATE: Bought the cable and so far very happy with the computer. It is as advertised in terms of performance.
I do not seem to be able to change the star rating but I'll give it 4 stars. Can't imagine being able to beat what I got for the price (found a clearance below anything I had seen) - 2008-09-20, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- superb
- Extremely happy with my new system. No porblems have surfaced using Vista as of yet.
- 2008-07-02, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- AV input
- This is a nice computer but one of the main reasons that I bought it was because it had the audio/video input card in the front of the tower in the fourth picture. I was wrongly mislead when I just got it in the mail there was no such interface, but other than that I don't really have a problem with it. This makes me mad because I bought a new monitor separately in faith that I would be able to use it to hook my 360 to my computer and play on my monitor (I have to still see if that is possible).
- 2008-06-24, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Like the computer - don't like the operating system.
- The HP Pavilion M8430F Desktop PC I purchased from amazon.com arrived within 2 days of the order. Perfect timing. Initial setup was easy and the documentation, though minimal, was adequate. After several days of working with the unit the DVD recorder/player stopped working. I immediately called HP's toll free customer support and after turning the unit over to their control on-line, the technician edited the registry and solved the problem. I was impressed to say the least. The unit is fast at rendering video clips, which is the main reason I chose this computer in the first place. However, that said, not all of my video/audio editing software has installed successfully. The software in question was updated to work with Vista but apparently only works with Vista's 32 bit version. From what I can glean from user forums the software really doesn't like any version of Vista. So, now I am at a crossroad. I'd like to go back to Windows XP Pro in order to get ALL of my software to work, but in so doing I will apparently lose the use of that 4th gig of ram and possibly all of the Windows Media Center capability that the unit has to offer. Decisions, decisions. I like the computer - but I don't like the operating system.
- 2008-06-20, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
