Hp's Slimline Pavilion s7600c has a leading authority finished preceding incarnations of HP's small-form-factor design: a dual-core CPU. Thanks to AMD's new file of energy-efficient Athlon 64 X2 chips, HP can now contend beside the Mac Mini as a powerful, feature-rich minuscule PC. The Mac Mini has a massiveness and luxurious advantage; it's doubly as small, and its sanitary lines cut a superior chart. But what the Pavilion Slimline sacrifices in space-savings and flawless looks, it gains in practicality and presentation. It's likewise smaller amount overpriced. Although our inspection config expenditure $975, once you be a foil for out the spectacles to game those of the 1.83GHz Mac Mini Core Duo, the Slimline gets the win. If you're superficial for an affordable, tight computing device to deal with daily tasks, as very well as one that may well be able to carry out whatever home-theater duties, we recommend the Pavilion Slimline s7600e as the supreme on the edge regulations we've seen.
The point we like the Slimline so more is because of its features. In nigh every aspect, it beatniks the Mac Mini, its biggest gala. For spirit hardware, the config HP sent us came with a 2.0GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 processor; 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM; and a 250GB, 7,200rpm strong driving force. Those features, among others (which we'll get to), are all upgrades to the spirit Slimline PC config and convey the $450 postrebate basic damage up to our inspection unit's $975. To get the Mac Mini as stick as it can to those specs, you'd have to pay $1,075, and the tough actuation would inert be lone 160GB, or 90GB littler than our HP's. You could even face the Mac Mini to $1,152 if you add an Apple gnawing animal and keyboard, which would be fair, since the HP comes next to its own sign devices.