If you’re scouting around for a small-form factor desktop for your business or home office consider the HP Pavilion Elite e9120f.  It’s small form factor has a great balance between performance & price. The PC has excellent upgradeability: 2 open PCIe slots and one internal 3.5 bay where you can install an additional hard drive later on.

The Elite e9120f is powered by a 2.6GHz AMD Phenom II X4 910 processor, comes with a robust 8GB of RAM, and a large 1TB hard drive. It has a door on the lower right side that reveals theproprietary Personal Media Drive slot. This slot can hold a specizlized  3.5-inch hard drive made by HP. The back has various ports: FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 2.0, 7.1-channel analog audio, and digital audio-out. Inside the case you’ll find a graphics card in the PCI Express x16 expansion slot is and a network card in one of the three PCI slots.  Read more details in this Computer Shopper article. Review Summaries
Computer Shopper calls the Elite e9120f a great choice if you’re looking for a solid balance of performance and price in a system that also has room to grow with your needs. The Elite is rated good in the viewpoint of PCMAG. It’s a well-equipped multimedia machine; you’ll have to budget separately for a monitor and speakers.

Compreviews thinks the Elite e9120f is a new lower cost model that offers some unique features. The  system performs well and is on par with similar prices Intel systems. The great feature is the included Blu-ray player allowing for high definition movie viewing. The built-in wireless also makes it easy to integrate into a home wireless network.

Rating Summaries
This system currenly has a rating of 4 eggs at Newegg.com with 4 total reviews. outstanding comment. Here’s some of the recent reviews from Newegg:

• ”Blu-ray, VGA DVI and HDMI, Tons of hard drive space. Awesome at multitasking. Lots of RAM. Best bang for the Buck out there.”

• “Bluray player for such a low priced system $819.99…Runs HL2 EP1 & 2 like a champ at the HIGHEST settings! Adobe CS3 software runs superbly. I can create 1920 x 1080 drawings at 400 dpi and not run out of memory”

• “HP has never let me down. The build quality is second to none as far as PC’s go. I still have one that is now 6 years old and it STILL works to this day!”

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Prices
Google Products: available at 75 venders
Cnet Shopper: 12 venders are selling the Elite
LivehotDeals: indicates you can buy the Elite for $689

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