I started this out by wanting to upgrade my five year old Dell. After looking around at video cards I decided that I didn't want to put another $150 into this old computer. I was looking around and I decided to go with an HP. Found some pre-made models that looked fairly good, but the graphics card was always lacking and the one that I really liked was $1419 and had a Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drive(CLICK HERE). I decided to look at HP's website and see if I could customize one to the same specs without the HD drive and see how much it would be. Everything the same, it would have been about $100 less. I then thought about when I ordered my parents laptop. I had spotted a coupon on the web for 20%. I went to the website again and here was a coupon code for $400 off any custom HP. So I bumped everything up to the next level and this is that I got
HP Pavilion Elite m9000t customizable TV PC[*]Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)[*]Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad processor Q6600 (2.4GHz)[*]4GB DDR2-667MHz dual channel SDRAM (4x1024)[*]512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT, TV-out, DVI-I, HDMI[*]802.11 b/g USB Wireless LAN card & USB external modem[*]500GB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive[*]LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive[*]15-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB, 1394, video, audio[*]ATSC-NTSC TV tuner with PVR, FM tuner, remote[*]Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer[*]Norton Internet Security(TM) 2007 - 15 Months[*]Microsoft(R) Works 8.0[*]HP keyboard and HP scroller mouseTell me what you think of the system

Total cost was $1144 after the $400 off. free 2-day shipping from china via fed-ex. Looks like I should get it by next Friday.

The coupon is only good till 10/26 if anyone else is interested - customize your PC and when you go to pay you can enter this code - DT1055 - that will get you $400 off - just make sure your original total is over $999.[*][*]Coupon is no longer valid

 

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That website doesn't seem to have the code I found - I got it off of here

http://www.onlinepromotioncodes.com/ there is says my coupon is good till 10/27 - but I talked with an HP rep and she said that only a certain number of the coupons will be accepted - once that amount has been reached the deal is gone

 

Should have gotten a mac.

Josh

 

^^^^^ x2

 

sounds pretty sweet! hope you get it soon.. and plans to upgrade monitors? I know that usually folllows since its hard to look at an old monitor knowing its being powered by a brand new computer

 

You need one or maybe even 2 of these:
Apple HD Cinema Desplay 30inch version!



Josh

 

ehh thats nothing.. my HP has a nice 47" to go with it

 

Yeh well... ok

Josh

 

LOL... but it also doubles as my TV