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PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Pavilion Elite PC HPE-510y desktop PC. 'Cut from the same cloth as the HP Pavilion Elite PC HPE-410y ($929.99 street, 3 stars), the HPE-510y does nothing to waver from the black boxy design. The face of the desktop has a smooth glossy finish: The only I/O ports that aren't hidden behind doors are located at the top of the tower; there are two USB 2.0 ports, and a multimedia card reader that takes xD, MD/CF, SD/Mini/MMC, and MS/PRO formats. The top of the HPE-510y has an indented tray to put your MP3 players and other devices to connect to the aforementioned ports.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Pavilion p6719c desktop PC. 'The p6719c has the standard HP Pavilion p6700 series chassis: glossy black front panel, black painted metal side panels. It's utilitarian and attractive at the same time. The system is a mini tower desktop, with some interior expansion space. The system is fairly easy to get into to upgrade using a screwdriver; once inside you'll find space for a two additional hard drives, one optical drive, two free memory DIMM slots, three PCIe x1 cards, and one PCIe x16 graphics card. The p6719c only has a 250W power supply, so it won't support a high-end graphics card, but it will certainly support a couple of internal hard drives as well as minor upgrades like a TV tuner card or USB 3.0 card.'

Dev Hardware have published a review of the HP TouchSmart 310z and Acer Aspire Z5700-U3112 desktop PCs. 'The base configuration of the TouchSmart 310z that costs $699.99 comes with a 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon II 240e processor with 2MB of L2 cache. The processor's dual cores help when you want to run multiple applications simultaneously. Do not expect a ton of fast performance from this configuration, however. It will suffice for common tasks like Internet browsing, instant messaging, document editing, and multimedia. More intense tasks, such as media editing, may cause some performance hiccups. You can upgrade the processor on HP's website, as well as many other components, but that will cause the base price to balloon in a hurry. Extra multitasking help comes from 4 GB of DDR3 SDRAM.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Pavilion p6527c-b desktop PC. 'The p6527c-b is a mid-tower sized desktop with a glossy black exterior. All of the various ports and drives on the front of the case are hidden behind doors or sliding panels, except for the 15-in-1 card reader that sits above the optical drive bay. Directly below the optical drive bay HP has placed a bay labeled "Expansion Bay" where you can install a removable HP Branded hard drive or a legacy drive. Directly below this is a panel that slides down to reveal two USB 2.0 ports and a headphone and microphone jacks. The included keyboard is pretty lightweight, but the keys provide good feedback and the numeric keypad is a definite plus.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-257c-b desktop PC. 'The HPE-257c-b comes in HP's standard Pavilion Elite chassis, which is the size of a standard tower PC, yet has HP's design ID all over it. It has the same glossy black front panels as the Editors' Choice HP Pavilion Elite HPE-140f ($1,029.99 list, ), with the same sports car-inspired embellishments. I still like the backlit HP logo on the front panel; it definitely sets itself apart from the sea of other black PC boxes on the store shelves.'

CNET have published a review of the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-112y dektop PC. 'On the outside, the Pavilion Elite HPE-112Y and its glossy black plastic chassis looks like most of the other retail desktops out there. We're glad to report that the inside has improved, however, from older models in the Elite series. Previous Elites had a clunky metal sleeve jammed inside to accommodate one of HP's proprietary removable hard drives, which the company sold as optional extras. The new model has no such sleeve, but the interior cage for the fixed hard drives is still an inconvenient remnant from that old design. You need to remove the entire assembly to add a drive or remove the current one. At least that and other upgrades should be easier with the up-sell drive sleeve removed.'

CNET have published a review of the HP Pavilion p6320y desktop PC. 'The $700 HP Pavilion p6320y is a solid midlevel PC that occupies an uncomfortable middle ground. The $550 Gateway DX4831-01e is a better budget choice if you spend most of your computing time managing a music library or manipulating digital photos. Or a $730 desktop from Asus gives you generally better all-around performance with equivalent features for a marginal cost increase. That makes us recommend the HP only for its strength in multicore-friendly programs. If you're using programs that take full advantage of a quad-core CPU, the HP could make sense for you. We suspect most of you shopping for a PC in this price range want something of a jack-of-all trades PC instead.'

A review of the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-180 home desktop PC has been posted over at Reg Hardware. 'The Pavilion Elite HPE-180 stands at the pinnacle of the HP's home PC line-up and sports spec to match. It has a 2.80GHz Intel Core i7-860 processor, 8GB of DDR 3 memory, a Blu-ray combo drive and, to make use of all that memory, 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. There's a question mark hanging over the unbranded "special edition" Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 graphics card as it only supports DirectX 10. That's something of a shame as AMD has a range of DirectX 11 cards. So from the start, the HPE-180 isn't quite as elite as its branding - and more importantly, its price - might suggest.'

PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Pavilion p6347c-b desktop PC. 'The Pavilion p6347c-b breaks no new design ground; in fact it looks very much like the HP Pavilion p6247c-b and p6127c-b. It's the usual glossy black HP minitower with top-mounted power button and the 15-in-1 media card reader, sliding cover over two USB and audio ports in the front, and standard set of ports in the back. Though it's an older design, it does hold at lot of stuff: It can handle three more PCIe x1 cards in addition to the PCIe x16 graphics card, two more additional hard drives and an optical drive, and space for one more memory DIMM (8GB anyone?). There's even space for a mini-PCIe card, in case you want to add Wi-Fi to this desktop. I'm thankful that HP skipped adding a modem to this system; widespread broadband adoption is making sure you don't need to dial up anymore.'

A review of the HP Pavilion Elite e9240f desktop PC has been posted over at PC Magazine. 'The e9240f follows HP's familiar design structure is one that we've come to expect in the Pavilion series sharing the same uniform black glossy tower as the HP Pavilion Elite e9120f and e9160f. The front of the system features a 15-in-1 card reader and composite video and S-video AV inputs, which make it extremely easy to get all of your photos and videos into the PC. There is also a drive bay on the front of the machine for HPs Easy Backup Personal Media drives. If the included 1 TB of storage is not quite enough you can quickly slot in a few more gigs of storage and back up your data via the HP "Easy Backup" button also located on the front of the machine.'