HP this week announced a new Compaq Presario desktop, the 8000T, which includes an Intel 865 chipset with a Pentium 4 3.2GHz processor, and Serial ATA hard drives with RAID technology. The RAID technology lets the PC store the same data on different places on multiple hard disks, HP says. This helps provide fault-tolerant storage of data in case one of the hard disks fails, the company added. The desktop is shipped with RAID-1, but with the ability to migrate to RAID-0, HP said.
The desktop starts at $999 (after $50 rebate) for a Pentium 4 2.6GHz processor, 800MHz front-side bus with hyper-threading technology, 256M bytes of DDR SDRAM, two 80G-byte hard drives with RAID, a 128M-byte DDR ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card with TV out functions, a 48x-speed CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk drive. Users can upgrade to processors with 2.8-, 3.0- or 3.2-GHz speeds. Other upgrade options include adding a six-in-one media card reader, Windows XP Professional, dual 120G-byte hard drives with a RAID Controller, or a 4x-speed DVD+R/+RW combination drive.
Standard features include six USB 2.0 ports (two in front, two in the back), two IEEE 1394 FireWire ports (one in front, one in the back), five PCI slots, four DIMM slots for additional memory (up to 4G bytes), and one 8x AGP slot for graphics card expansion. The desktops are available now, go to the HP Web site for more details.
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