Great, superfast computer for an amazing price

I recently purchased this computer and am extremely pleased with its high speed performance. Great for film editing as well as many other functions. It's lightening fast and has an incredible 8GB Ram, large 750 GB (actually 686GB) hard drive as well as a superfast processor.

For the price, you'll be hard pressed to find a better deal.

Generally positive

Worked well out of the box, better when I got rid of the garbage software, games, etc., that comes with all HP computers. My purpose was to run graphics programs, Photoshop, Lightroom quickly and well. It does that superbly; the fastest PC I have used. A bonus is that the computer case is very quiet, with no audible fan noise during normal operation. The various slots for insertion of HP's proprietary removable drives are of no value to me. Most of us would want a transportable drive to be useable on any other PC, not just another HP PC. My biggest gripe is the lack of a disk to reinstall the operating system or portions of it separately if needed. The built in push-one-button backup system using Microsoft's backup program is also pretty useless because one cannot restore a particular file from the backup. It's all or none.

M9450f big bang for a low price!

I just purchased this item and, for the money, it's hard to beat. Frankly, it's faster than my $3,500 less than a year old quad machine at work!

Pros:
- Quiet
- Fast
- well loaded

Cons:
- case seems small and I worry a bit about heat (no problems though)
- 2nd cd/DVD drive would have been nice
- better sound card (X-FI) would have been nice

All in all, a great buy and really fast! I purchased and returned an HP TouchSmart right before this and the M9450 is twice as fast as the TouchSmasrt and doesn't have the major ergonomic issues of the TouchSmart...