HP 8200 Elite Intel i7 500GB USFF Desktop Price: $279.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 1-2 business days (Monday, Oct 05 to Tuesday, Oct 06) + transit Condition: Refurbished
I bought one last time it was on here. Mine came with wireless which is cool. I upgraded the ram to 16 gigs and the hard drive to 2tb. This mini rig is a beast. I use it to stream 1080p movies via plex to roku’s around my house.
Not the best choice for a Home Theater PC… Display port rather than HDMI plus no expansion slots for a good video card and a sound card with optical digital output. The refurbished gateway slim tower I bought for $180 almost 2 years ago is a better choice than this for HTPC. I got 6gb of memory, a dvd burner, and 2 expansion slots. All this has going for it is a fast CPU (not GPU) and an overkill on USB ports which is not needed for media/home theater.
How about more details, as in how fast did you get back to them, what did they say? Why did they not want to help you? Had you already modified the unit. etc?
They’re presumably just referring to the option to set the “compatibility mode” for a program to Windows XP, or other previous versions of Windows (in the same way that Windows XP had compatibility mode settings for Windows 98, etc.).
“XP Mode” is not the same as “Compatibility Mode.” XP Mode is free only for Windows 7 Pro (and higher) as it is just a pre-configured, activated, Windows XP virtual machine which runs in Microsoft Virtual PC. In Windows 7 Home, Virtual PC is also free, but the XP license is not.
It’s a cool feature – if one installs a program that only runs under XP in XP mode, shortcuts are automatically added to the menu so that the XP only program looks and acts like it’s just running automatically in a window; when really it’s running in its own virtual machine.
Yet another good Windows 7 feature that was dropped in Windows 8.
Ah. Thanks for the correction. I thought I remembered something like that, but didn’t realize that you got the XP license. Without that, it’s just Virtual PC, which didn’t really seem like a “mode”.