I brought the s3421 which is the same as the s3420 only without the tv tuner, another retailer is featuring them on sale this week. I brought this computer to replace my high end HP laptop that died. Because of that I hesitated buying another HP. But I've had HP's in the past that were fine. And I swear by the printers. I didn't want another laptop though. This litte computer for the money really packs a punch. I found I rather like the Windows Vista system and I know I'm in the minority on that one. But this computer is fast, stays cool, and you can barely here it running, unlike the laptop before it. Nice softwhere assortment with it. Let's face it the avg computer user really only needs Microsoft works for their office needs. You only need office if you work at home and there is a 3 month student trial for Office 2007. I rather liked the look of that also(let's not forget and support our open source buddies by downloading openoffice free Office clone that can read Microsoft office files).
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The special keys on the keyboard make it easy to acess mail, internet, open and close the disk drive. The disk drive is vertical that took some getting used to. You can use is laying on it's side but space didn't permit me to so using as a tower. It's small maybe 30# larger then a wii if that. I don't know if it's the trend these days but didn't give you any software disks. You have to make a recovery disk yourself. Very little written instruction. So if you've never used a computer before might have some problems. It has 6 USB ports, firewire, media card reader. Even though mine didn't come with a tv tuner it still has the Media center. Now I got this with my laptop and a usb tv tuner which I could use. The Media center has come a long way since I looked at it. You have the option to download movies (at a price), watch shows on most of the basic cable channel for ex. History channel, food network. You can intergrate with you music, except if you have an ipod and itunes, they don't work well with others, there are programs that will unlock the protection Apple puts on anything you put into itunes but if you have thousands of song might not be worth it. Also with music get yourself some good speakers has a nice sound but I have some cheap speakers I got temp while using another computer. With a 500 gig hard drive unless you a media hound won't fill that up. Hard to believe my first computer had a total of 6.4 gig hard drive. I paid $[...] after rebates and this computer does what some priced twice this amount. It' definately a good value. The one selling here is also with the tuner and remote. But if you fine without you might check out a popular office supply company till 5/31/08. And remember real people don't wear real fur.
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