HP Pavilion 513n Desktop PC (1.8 GHz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 60GB hard drive)

Product Description

Easy to use, HP Pavilion PCs are designed for all the family - from children to grandparents, first time users to computer enthusiasts. Good-looking, robust and built to last, HP Pavilion PCs offer a price and performance range to suit every household budget. Backed by HP brand quality and reliability, HP Pavilion PCs complement HP's family of imaging products, offering customers a complete home computing solution.

Amazon.com Product Description

If multimedia is a family affair in your home, Hewlett-Packard's Pavilion 513n desktop PC will be a welcome addition to your household. A combination DVD/CD-RW drive turns the 513n into the ideal family multimedia center for viewing movies on DVD and creating music CDs.

The 513n features a 1.8 GHz Intel Celeron processor and a 60 GB hard drive with plenty of room for downloading, creating, and storing data files and digital music and photography. The tower PC includes a DVD/CD-RW drive (40x/8x/8x, 16x DVD) for viewing DVD movies, creating and listening to music, and backing up data. It also includes integrated AC-97 Polk Audio stereo speakers with Power Port technology, and MPEG2 for full-motion video.

An integrated Intel Extreme Graphics card--with up to 64 MB of shared video memory--offers impressive display capabilities for nearly any monitor you might connect to this system. The tower includes a V.90 56K data/fax modem, an integrated 10/100Base-T Fast Ethernet interface, three PCI expansion slots (two available), six available USB 2.0 ports, and an available serial and parallel port. An HP Pavilion PS2 keyboard and a two-button PS2 scrolling mouse also are included, and the tower includes a 3.5-inch 1.44 MB floppy drive.

Total memory slots include two DIMM slots (one available). Primary (L1) cache includes 8 KB of data cache. Secondary (L2) cache includes 128 KB of secondary-level cache.

Installed software includes Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition; Corel WordPerfect Productivity Pack, including WordPerfect 10 and Quattro Pro 10; HP RecordNow; InterVideo WinDVD SE; ArcSoft PhotoImpression, Fun House and Greeting Card Creator; Intuit Quicken Financial Center/Quicken 2002 New User Edition; Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0; Norton AntiVirus 2002 with six months of free upgrades; and two free Game Channel titles.

Customer Reviews:

Okay for a beginner home user or student........2004-02-14

This computer did us well as a starter home user and with a high school student, but as we progressed my husband needed to add some big office software. The computer came with Norton 2002 anti-virus which slowed the system down considerably. When I took it out it speeded up the system by about 30 percent. Then I changed the setting to "adjust for performance" instead of "adjust for appearance" and sure it was ugly then but 30 percent faster even yet. The Celeron is slow compared to the Pentium 3 or Pentium 4. 256 mgs of memory should be upgraded if you get tired of this computer freezing up everytime you want to use more than one app. at a time. It doesn't have the juice. So we are going to sell this one and upgrade to a Dell for the same price with a P4 and add a 512 of memory chip. I still would recommend this computer for your family and kids as a starter for the price. ...

A good, solid work-station computer........2002-11-09

If you're looking for an ultra high tech machine, look elsewhere. Likewise, if you're looking for a PC that you can easily upgrade as time and finances allow, this is not the model for you. However, if you're looking for a basic PC that will connect easily enough to a network to be used as a work station, or directly to the Internet for a little browsing and emailing, or perhaps to listen to some music or even watch a DVD, this one will do just fine. It also has more than enough punch to do any household chores, like money management and light desktop publishing. It certainly is a great machine for a student. I have a number of HPs around my home and office, and for the most part they were bought to be functional rather than "cutting edge" performers. They have not only proven themselves to be functional, they have proven themselves to be extremely reliable (one machine in my home has been left on virtually 24-7 for 2 years and still runs like a top). This machine has just about all the features any casual computer user would want: an adequate 1.6 GHz Celeron processor, 256 MB of RAM, a 60 GB hard disk and a good CD-RW+DVD player. Perhaps most impressive, however, is the price. Machines this capable are the equivalent of the sub-$$$$ color TV: they may not have all the "bells and whistles", but they certainly do their job well enough.

I have the Pavilion 513x-b, very similar to this model.......2002-10-29

I just bought the Pavilion 513x-b, which is very similar to this model. My only complaints are
#1 That there isn't enough PCI slots available to really upgrade this system in the near future.
#2 That there are only 2 - 5¼ slots in the tower and 1 - 3½ slot. That means you can only add one drive (Mine came with a CD-RW and I added the hp dvd writer dvd200i, which is currently the 2nd top rated DVD-RW drive on the market, only beaten out my Sony on audio ripping) a DVD-RW drive.
#3 - There is only space for one more hard drive. I already threw in my old 40GB, as the system only came with a 30GB (guess I'll have to add a Raid Array to add my two other 13GB's)
Other than that, it's a great system. :o)

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