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We have collected 3 reviews of the HP Pavilion p6720f. Experts rate HP Pavilion p6720f 6/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the HP Pavilion p6720f and HP Desktop computers.
The HP Pavilion p6720f ($599.99 list) is a solid, basic home desktop PC that is easy to buy, easy to set up, but is ultimately outshined by less expensive desktops that have fewer drawbacks. It will serve admirably as a desktop for a novice user, or a second or third PC for the house. But there are other choices that outshine it, particularly our Editors' Choice Dell Inspiron i580-8139NBC ($499.98 list, 4 stars) for entry-level desktop PCs. The p6720f has the standard HP Pavilion p6700 series look to it: glossy black front panel, black painted metal side panels. Its utilitarian design has an attractive quality. The p6720f is a mini tower desktop, with some interior expansion space. You'll need a screwdriver to open the tower, but once inside you'll find space for a two additional hard drives, one optical drive, one free memory DIMM slot, 3 PCIe x1 cards, and one PCIe x16 graphics card. The desktop 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. The exterior has 6 USB 2.0 ports, audio ports, DVI, and VGA. Notably absent are USB 3.0 and HDMI, but then again, basic PC users are unlikely to care about these future-proofing technologies.
Amid competition from slim-tower PCs and all-in-ones, the tried-and-true midtower PC might seem like a dated platform. Still, we can't help but have some appreciation for HP's Pavilion p6720f. This $599 desktop has few feature highlights, but it's a capable budget PC with an expandable base for a reasonable price. HP's Pavilion midtower design should feel familiar if you've gone PC shopping in the last few years. Its glossy black, gray-trimmed exterior conforms to apparent industry aesthetic standards, and although its outside is plastered with stickers, we're more willing to forgive a midtower for that design offense. Unlike smaller slim-tower PCs, a standard midtower desktop isn't that likely to wind up in your living room hardware stack. The Gateway's DX4840-03e and HP's own Pavilion p6510y are two of the last midtowers we've reviewed, both from July 2010. Neither is available anymore, but they still provide relevant points of comparison for the Pavilion p6720f, in that they let us see how the value proposition has changed over the last nine months or so. The differences between the two HP systems are more prominent than between the Pavilion p6720f and the Gateway.
HP is rather generous with hard drive space and RAM in the HP Pavilion p6720f, but skimps on the graphics card. And by "skimps," I mean there is none. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though -- this Budget desktop is an excellent choice for workers who are easily distracted by gaming, as you won't be able to do much of it. Our review unit, priced at $600 (as of 2/11/2011), comes equipped with a 2.9 GHz AMD Phenom II 840T quad-core processor, 6GB of installed RAM, and a whopping (for a Budget machine) 1TB hard disk drive. It also packs a DVD burner, ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics, and 802.11n Wi-Fi. The Pavilion p6720f is housed in a plain-looking black HP chassis. The glossy black plastic front has an extra expansion bay that sits right under the DVD burner, in case you'd like to add a second optical drive (like a Blu-ray player). The power button is located on the top of the chassis, and is lit with a subtle ice-blue LED. The p6720f's case is fairly slim (about seven inches wide), but otherwise unexceptional -- matte black sides feature the HP logo and taper out toward the front. This desktop comes with a generic mouse-and-keyboard set. Both peripherals are wired (USB), so there go two of your six USB ports.