HP z558 Digital Entertainment Center

Average customer rating: 1.0

Slick Looking - Components are old technology - Keyboard sucks! This is a POS...

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HP z558 Digital Entertainment Center

Manufacturer: hp
Product Group: Personal Computer
Binding: Personal Computers
ASIN: B000BWYXLY

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<b>Includes: wireless Keyboard w/ Integrated trackball, remote control, DVI-D cable, S-Video cable, L/R RCA Audio cable, 2 Infrared blasters, 2 RF Coaxial Video cables, 1 Coaxial Video Splitter, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Norton AntiVirus with Update Roll-up 2 w/ 1 year subscription, WinDVD Player, & more.</b> HP z558 Digital Entertainment Center - The z558 is a computer that has been specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with your home theater setup - without sacrificing your computing experience! It provides the best of all worlds - a powerful computer system that's powered by an Intel Pentium 4 Processor 640, a built-in PVR that provides TV viewing, pausing and recording, a DVD player and recorder, an FM tuner, and much more. Storage 300GB 7200RPM SATA 2nd 300GB 7200RPM HDD DVD SuperMulti Writer - (write) 8x DL DVD+R, 16x DVD+R, 8x DVD+RW, 16x DVD-R, 6x DVD-RW, 40x CD-R, 32x CD-RW / (read) 16x DVD-ROM & 40x CD-ROM Lightscribe Direct Disc Labeling TV & Video 2 NTSC TV Tuners 1 ATSC TV HD TV Tuner 14-Day Programming Guide NVIDIA GeForce 6600 x16 PCI Express Graphics Card with 128MB of DDR Memory Audio Intel High Definition Audio with 7.1 Surround Sound Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Supports playback of MP3, AAC, WMA, & WAV files FM Tuner External Ports Rear A/V - 1 DVI-D, 1 VGA, 1 Component (YPbPr), 1 S-Video, 1 Composite, 8 RCA Audio, 1 Toslink Optical Digital, & 1 Coaxial Digital TV Inputs - 1 RF Coaxial for Standard TV, 1 RF Coaxial for Digital TV, 2 S-Video, 1 Composite, 2 Sets of RCA Front Headphone, L/R RCA & Microphone In 6 USB 2.0 (2 front) / 2 FireWire (4-pin front / 6-pin rear) Front 9-in-1 Media Card Reader - supports Secure Digital, xD, Smart Media, MultiMedia Card, Compact Flash Types I/II, Microdrive, Memory Stick, & Memory Stick Pro Monitor is not included

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Slick Looking - Components are old technology - Keyboard sucks! This is a POS..........2005-12-25

Picked one of these up the other day, mostly for the slick design and for the wireless keyboard with trackball type mouse controller. But that's all it has, is looks...

After using the keyboard, it quickly became tedious to use, since not only are the keys hard to push down, they are in a tight proximity of each other and not in the usual places, and the wireless is hit and miss, possibly because it runs at only 49MHz frequency. It will miss keys here and there, so you have to type very slooow, and check your work very often, and with passwords where you can't see what you are typing, good luck! It quickly becomes a tire... There is no number pad and the trackball mouse is skippy and lacks a scroll feature...

The processor is 1 "generation" older than the current dual core intel processors and the RAM is standard DDR instead of DDR2... Come on, the dual core Pentium D has been out for more than 6 months, what is taking HP? Is it because P4 is inscribed on the casing and they don't want to reinscribe the case?

Unless HP updates the components and the keyboard, this is a terrible value and a POS.

UPDATE: The processor in this POS is now 3 full "generations" behind the current Intel Dual Core technology, is HP smoking dope or something, maybe it's the people putting $2000+ into this archaic machine...

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