I just purchased a new PC last night. After months and months of my current PC crashing and becoming as slow as a slug, my wife and I finally decided it was time to move on. I decided on the HP - Pavilion Desktop. I got it from Best Buy.

My old computer was a total piece of crap. It’s pushing four years old. It’s a Medion with a 3.0 ghz Pentium IV processor and 512 RAM.

For $569, I got a load PC that is very past. Sure there are plenty of computers on the market that are faster, stronger, and more powerful… but one of our biggest factors in determining which PC to buy was price. I would rather spend $569 now and be able to buy another top of the line PC in 2-3 years. If we had spent $1500+ on a PC now, in order to justify the price we’d have to keep it forever (like the one I’m currently getting rid of).

So here are some of the specs of my new PC, for all of them, click here:
# Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor E5200
Featuring an 800MHz frontside bus, 2MB shared L2 cache and 2.5GHz processor speed.
# 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM - expandable to 8 GB
For multitasking power, expandable to 8GB.
# SuperMulti DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support
# 500GB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
# Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 graphics
# Front-panel 15-in-1 media reader
# Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system with Service Pack 1 (SP1)

The only downside of this PC is the graphics card it comes with. I’ll probably upgrade that for Christmas. I also love that it comes with several empty PCI slots, some of the other HP models didn’t.

So for the next day or so I’ll be backing everything up on my current PC before I install and set up the new one. I can’t wait to load it up and actually run multiple programs at the same time.