My main desktop died at the weekend – we had some kind of power cut in the week, and no, I don’t currently use a UPS so it went pop! Fortunately, Windows Home Server had everything backed up, (and I have all my important stuff on an external hard drive too just in case). Fortunately, the Home Server machine survived the power problem, so it was off to the shops to pick out a new desktop.
As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve moving house shortly, and will be doing a lot of rebuilding – so I wanted to get a machine that was powerful, but small enough to hide away. The HP S7720 fitted my needs exactly.
This is a great little machine – very small form factor (about a third of the size of a standard desktop – 110 x 322 x 245 mm) and comes with the following specs:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 processor 3800+ With AMD Live!™
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
NVidia GeForce 7500 LE 256Mb
1 Gb Memory
320 Gb hard drive
DVD RAM and Double Layer ±R/ ±RW 16x/8x max supporting LightScribe technology
9in1 memory card reader
Ethernet 10/100BT integrated network interface
IEEE 1394 FireWire® Interface
High Definition Audio 7.1
1 front audio ports, 6 rear analog audio ports & 1 rear digital audio port
5 USB 2.0 ports (1 in front); 1 FireWire®-IEEE-1394;
The form factor is very cute indeed – it’s very similar (if not the same form factor) to the recently released HP Media Vault . So far, it’s running Vista Home Premium very well (compared to my old desktop, which, despite being relatively powerful, struggled a lot) and looks a lot tidier in the study.
It would make a great Home Server or standard desktop – check out the review here.
