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Got something of value to sell Woot? You’d be the first. Somebody, anybody, give us a quality product. We’re dying here.
Sigh… Going to be here awhile…
First the rain, and now THIS?
Oh yeah, “Does this work with my mac?”
Polite and well-written e-mails have always given me the best success with customer support, whatever the reputation of the company. Whenever that’s failed, I’ve found faxes to get good results. Telephone is a last resort, and often a waste of time.
By the way, contacting the manufacturer of the hard-drive is sometimes an option if you have trouble with the maker of a PC, or if you don’t want to send in your entire machine for service.
Things things are really great for giving us all a break on woot… Ooh Double meaning!! See what I did there?
Didnt HP build the bluebird, or something a few years back, that was considered pretty radical for the time? Besides, most people, non-wooters for example, just consider a pc to be an appliance, and want it to look like a pc not like a Thermaltake GT.
And we now can work until 10:30
Ok, then you buy it.
lol i was polite until after the 3rd time they hung up on me told me they sent me a box to ship my pc to them so i waited a week then called back and they had no record of a box being shiped… had to wait again for them to send it finally
As much as I’m not a fan of HP consumer systems (especially the laptops, which are poorly designed and lacking quality control), this didn’t seem like a bad deal.
Then I looked around and found out this is a dual-core i5 processor. I forgot Intel even made dual-core i5 CPUs; I thought all of them were quad-core.
No longer a good deal, once I found that out.
Bought this computer last November from woot, it arrived in 2 weeks (I live in Portugal). Havent had a single problem with it and would recommend it to anyone looking for a decent computer.
My Bloody Legs disagree. Bring on the avatarsauce deals. My disposable income demands it.
be weary of HP desktops if you are in to upgrading yourself: They put a custom BIOS on their motherboards that locks most features down. I own one right now (not this model) that supports RAID according to the motherboard manufacturers website, but HP’s version has that feature locked out!
I didn’t say it was a good deal =P
That killed it for me, too. It’s a good deal for what you get, but not necessarily for what you’ll use. Gamers, for example, would be better off with a base-model Dell Studio XPS 7100 and a graphics card upgrade offset by the sale of the stock card.
Here’s a benchmark comparison on the CPU: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5+650+%40+3.20GHz
I would buy an HP garbage-software loaded computer only if it was guaranteed to have a wad of cash inside that was greater than the cost + shipping.
This is an excellent machine for media and surfing the web. Most gaming would require a better video card and power supply, but what else is new?
Double dog dare ya!
Though I have to say, disabling RAID is doing most users a favor.