HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Desktop Review and Contest.

Since this innocent little post I have been bombarded with questions like… “When will you be giving away the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Desktop?”, “Can I have the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Desktop” and  I even recieved an email from someone in Kentucky looking to bake me cookies!

So here is our review on this little wonder of a desktop followed by the contest rules. So keep on reading if you want this little guy to find a home in your living room for free! And let me take this opportunity to thank the good guys at HP and their PR guys. What a wonderful bunch of people!

Not only is this little guy small and looks good in your living room it is also GREEN! No not in color but in spirit. It uses very little power and has some amazing power settings. You can input your price per kw and it will tell you how much it will cost to run for the year! Very nifty.

The HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Desktop ($1,206 direct, $1,470 with 19-inch widescreen LCD monitor. We have seen it online for as low as $753) is the best looking and most powerful of all these “GreenPc’s” that we have seen so far. Many of the other models (not naming names) use much slower processors and wack components but this dc7800 works… AWESOME!

 This dc7800 I reviewed has a 2.66-GHz Core 2 Duo E6750, along with a compact, notebook-class, dual-layer DVD burner and eight USB ports. Don’t let it’s size fool you because it sure packs a wallop. It is 80 PLUS certified—for the laymen it’s 80 percent efficient, unlike the 30-60 percent efficiency of normal AC-to-DC power supplies. The power supply is an external brick.

We are talking Energy Star 4.0 certification: It uses ~2 watts while it is in S3 sleep, ~1W when turned off, and only 33W at idle (but operating). While compressing video and rendering some images the machine ran a little higher than other machines in its class but it does have a more powerful processor.

We love it over here and hate to part with it BUT YOU CAN WIN THIS DESKTOP! We will also pack it chock full of AtA’s favorite Freeware that we have featured over the last two years. All you need to do is send an email to HPContest@AskTheAdmin.com with a short story on why we should give you this machine. Let us know what you are going to do with it – be creative, make us laugh, make us cry… But hey just give it a try. You have to be in it to win it. (Enough with me being a poet for the day…)

Oh and if you win you will get the Dc7800 and a wired HP Keyboard and Mouse. It will NOT come with a support contract.

 But hey you got us to help you out right??!?

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