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It also looks like HP provides some Wild Tangent games theyвЂ™ve purchased for you and some picture album software. ThereвЂ™s also a bunch of ISP offers like AOL plastered on your desktop.

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YouвЂ™ll find Norton, Vongo, and some HP software like a wireless network assistant, auto-update program, and a quick-launch button configuration utility upon starting the system up.

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I know manufactures do this to lower prices, but it does get really annoying to boot into Windows for the first time and have to wait 5 to 7 minutes for all the garbage to load up and have to go through all the windows that pop up. However, some of the HP software is pretty nice.ДЄgain IвЂ™m going to dedicate a section to the bloatware on this system. 8 GB seems excessive to me because I have Windows CDвЂ™s. IвЂ™m itching to get rid of that when Vista arrives. HP instead charges extra for these but does place an 8 GB restore partition on your systemвЂ™s hard drive. Inside the box sitting next to the notebook is a quick-start poster, the AC adaptor (AKA power brick, which is actually more like a rice crispy because itвЂ™s small and light), a short phone cable, and a bunch of advertisements and instruction booklets.

Basically, the packing is exactly what youвЂ™d expect to find. The foam prevented both the outside box and inside box from touching the system, which was also wrapped in plastic. The notebook arrived with foam cushions on either side of its width and a box sitting atop it. I liked the speed of the delivery because it was much faster than I anticipated. Again, not a negative though and FedEx did race it here. This isnвЂ™t a bad thing, but as someone who has purchased DellвЂ™s in the past (which get transported to Texas before being shipped) it was a bit different. I was really surprised when I got the initial tracking notification and the system started its FedEx journey in China. You still need to mail away some barcodes and your packing list though. They say this will speed processing and hopefully it will. I really donвЂ™t like mail-in-rebates although HP tries to make it less painful by having an online service to start the rebate process from their website. The total price for the system came up to about $650, but there was a $100 mail-in-rebate. I hoped that my order would arrive before Christmas day, but it ended up arriving 2 days after, which was ok because there wasnвЂ™t a guarantee that it would arrive before Christmas and the actual estimate was for it to arrive late in the first week of January. I opted for 2 day shipping and completed my order the evening of 12/13. I purchased this system through after doing heavy comparison on offers from other manufacturers and also resellers.

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Also, at the time there was a promotion for a free upgrade to 1 GB of RAM. That and an inexpensive cache upgrade is what sold me on the Z model. I liked the variable clock speed ability the Sempron had over the Celeron, which lacked such a feature (speed-step is on Pentium processors). I made the decision to go with AMD after researching the power-saving technologies offered by both the Sempron and Celeron lines. The difference was that the Z model had AMD processors and the T model had Intel processors.

Making a significant upgrade to the hard drive to increase performance was out of the question, so I examined other models to see if I could get more RAM for almost the same price. The V3000Z was the least expensive at the time I was looking, however the screen was 14' inches and the RAM was at 512 MB. Initially I started looking at the Compaq models because they were priced lower than the HP models on HPshopping. Д¬ompaq v6000z package contents ( view large image)

I was particularly interested in the free upgrade to 1 GB of RAM was offering the week of. After some research, especially on this site, I found HP to be running the best offers at the time. Also, we made the decision to purchase a little late in the season. Our target price was to be no more than $550 (after rebates). We didnвЂ™t have a lot of money to work with and wanted to keep things as inexpensive as possible. Together my dad and I wanted to purchase a budget notebook for my mom. This purchase was not for myself, however. Also, the price promotions and free upgrades HP was offering in the middle of December were exactly what I was looking for. What led me to looking at HP notebooks was the fact that I didnвЂ™t have to deal with all the holiday traffic and crowds.

Windows XP Home Edition (Windows Vista Express Upgrade Promotion).

NVidia GeForce Go 6150 (borrows 64 MB of RAM).

Mobile AMD Semprom 3500+ (1.8 GHz, 512 MB Cache).