It’s a Digital Life: HP Pavilion m8200n Desktop PC

By John Gawley on May 15th, 2008

There are some PCs that are specially built for business applications. Then there are others designed to handle content creation and animation.

But right now, we’re going to take a look at Desktops specifically designed to organize your digital life. If you have any idea what digital life means, you’ll love the HP Pavilion m8200n AMD Desktop PC:an affordable refurbished PC that is ideal for taking care of all your digital media!

The Power to Organize your Digital Life

Take a peek at the HP Pavilion m8200n AMD Desktop PC’s innards and you’ll know why this is called a Media Center desktop. It carries the dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz processor with 2MB cache, an NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics card, 3 GB of DDR2 memory and a 500GB SATA II hard drive. It is true that resources needed for digital media take a bite out of the most powerful PCs; but the HP Pavilion m8200n AMD Desktop is specifically designed to be equal to the task. Take this machine for a spin, and you’ll quickly realize that the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor, the powerful graphics card and the 3 gigabytes of RAM make short work of digital movies and the like!

At first glance, the HP Pavilion m8200n AMD Desktop PC appears more like stereo or media equipment than the average PC. The styling and trimmings of the case fit right in in your TV or entertainment room. The glossy jet black surface and lines match well with other media devices like satellite or cable receivers and DVD players. It’s functional too: plenty of video inputs, the audio input and outputs, and USB ports are all neatly front-mounted on the case. With this design feature, connecting digital cameras, headphones or other media peripherals is effortless. The remote control (included) is just as cool and very ergonomically designed. It gives you full control of the PC’s multimedia functions.

With a hard drive as large as this one, you can store hundreds, if not thousands of photos, movies, and music. When you fill up the hard drive, it is easy to back up your files through dual-layer DVD±RW optical drive with Lightscribe Technology. Not only that, with the 15-in-1 internal flash media reader that supports everything from SD to Microdrive, you enjoy maximum media format versatility. Completing the hardware side of things, the PC also has an Analog NTSC AND Digital ATSC PCI TV tuner card, which allows you to watch TV directly from your PC. With this component, you get to record all the TV shows that the hard drive can handle—a feature that all media fans will appreciate.

At the heart of this media PC is the perfect OS for multimedia applications, Windows Vista Home Premium. The latest from Microsoft, it boasts added stability and performance efficiency. Besides, this OS features Windows Media Center software–allowing you to consolidate and integrate all your media files through a vibrant and functional graphical interface. With this software, you get to organize your digital media life effortlessly.