I got the deal as well and I too am planning on using it as a media center. Can anyone recommend a good tuner card? I am looking for a dual tuner or two buy two of them.

Fry's $429.99 today's paper in Phoenix

can i purchase a warranty after i already placed an order?

kellijeancote wrote:can i purchase a warranty after i already placed an order?

I believe you can buy one from HP directly

kellijeancote wrote:can i purchase a warranty after i already placed an order?

You probably can at:

http://www.squaretrade.com

kellijeancote wrote:can i purchase a warranty after i already placed an order?

Go to the top of page one click on:
HP Pavillion next to picture, scroll down to Sqare Trade Warranty. Use code "LABOR" and it should save you 30%.

ojohn wrote:Google "pcdecrapifier". You'll find a free program devoted to deleting most of the bloatware automatically, one after the other. You can choose to keep any of them before you start the process. You can download it now and practice it on your current machine to see what it can do, you don't have to let it do anything.

2 things: you should keep the special programs from HP, the quality program and the update program, and any others, until you are positive you won't need them. And to fully get rid of Symantec and McAfee stuff (and you should), you need to run those companies' own special deletion tools after decrapifier - they are linked on the decrapifier site. You can run decrapifier again anytime later.

Good luck with this machine, it's a great deal, and I'm not pleased that I missed it today.

ojohn wrote:Google "pcdecrapifier". You'll find a free program devoted to deleting most of the bloatware automatically, one after the other. You can choose to keep any of them before you start the process. You can download it now and practice it on your current machine to see what it can do, you don't have to let it do anything.

2 things: you should keep the special programs from HP, the quality program and the update program, and any others, until you are positive you won't need them. And to fully get rid of Symantec and McAfee stuff (and you should), you need to run those companies' own special deletion tools after decrapifier - they are linked on the decrapifier site. You can run decrapifier again anytime later.

Good luck with this machine, it's a great deal, and I'm not pleased that I missed it today.

ojohn (and anyone else who missed the HP quad) Check out the Dell Inspiron 570 Anthlon IIx4 630 2.8Ghz 3GB 1TB DVD RW DL refurb over at geeks.com better I think. I missed the HP too and got the Dell. Cheer up!

Got the shipping notice earlier this morning. That may be a new record for a Woot item.

Thank you Easter Bunny! bwak bwak!

With four SATA connections on the motherboard, does anyone know if there is on board raid control?

cleaner00 wrote:Got the shipping notice earlier this morning. That may be a new record for a Woot item.

Thank you Easter Bunny! bwak bwak!

Thank you for posting this, I am patiently waiting mine

can you reflect what type of shipping they are using?

kellijeancote wrote:can i purchase a warranty after i already placed an order?

Within 60 days from Square Trade.

ncodec wrote:Thank you for posting this, I am patiently waiting mine

can you reflect what type of shipping they are using?

Says FedEx

junkmailreceiver wrote:Says FedEx

So 2 People have been shipped the product, that's great! Everyone else: Can you post if you have been notified yet?

To get square trade warranty just go to page one click on description next to picture. Scroll down and click on square trade warranty link. Coupon code "LABOR" good for 30% discount.

I got my tracking number but Fedex hasn't picked it up. Delivery is scheduled for Saturday but I thought Saturday deliveries cost extra. Hopefully I do get it on Saturday, it will give me something to do on the 3 day weekend.

Received FEDEX shipping info from Woot today.
ETA 9/3 Woot on speed!

Service type: FedEx Home Delivery
Weight: 24.0 lbs/10.9 kg

Estimated delivery: Sep 3, 2011

If all goes as planned it would easily be the fastest "I want one" to "I got one" I've ever experienced.... still talking about Woot here btw.

cleaner00 wrote:Service type: FedEx Home Delivery
Weight: 24.0 lbs/10.9 kg

Estimated delivery: Sep 3, 2011

If all goes as planned it would easily be the fastest "I want one" to "I got one" I've ever experienced.... still talking about Woot here btw.

Lucky! Mine says 09/07 to Cali

Now the delivery date went from the 9/3 to 9/7 D:

Mine just changed from 9/3 to 9/7 as well.

jiggersgreen wrote:Mine just changed from 9/3 to 9/7 as well.

Well I am still waiting for a shipment notification 0=) hopefully it will be today.... 0=)

If anyone is still looking for one, Moofi Woot! has one that is almost the same for $299.99. The main difference appears to be a 750GB drive instead of a 1TB drive. Its a HP P6741C Desktop PC.



AMD Athlon II 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Processor
4-GB PC3-10600 System Memory
750 GB Hard Drive at 7,200 RPM

Estimated delivery: Sep 7, 2011


bummer, so much for my fun weekend.

ncodec wrote:So 2 People have been shipped the product, that's great! Everyone else: Can you post if you have been notified yet?

Mine is on the truck for delivery today.

Dat was QUICK>>>>>

read from bottom to top...in 8/31-- on my porch 9/02....
(of course Hutchins is just up the crick a piece from RRock...hyuk)


All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location
Date/Time
Activity
Location
Details
Sep 2, 2011 8:39 AM
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
ROUND ROCK, TX
Sep 2, 2011 6:36 AM
At local FedEx facility
ROUND ROCK, TX
Sep 2, 2011 1:44 AM
Departed FedEx location
HUTCHINS, TX
Sep 1, 2011 7:23 PM
Arrived at FedEx location
HUTCHINS, TX
Aug 31, 2011 2:55 PM
Shipment information sent to FedEx

I still haven't gotten my shipping info. Fingers crossed I see something today.

On a separate note, does anyone have any experience with the Hauppauge 2250 TV Tuner card? I was going to pick on up to use as a Media center.

Thoughts?

Got mine today!!! Now to get it home and up and running.

dbashore wrote:Got mine today!!! Now to get it home and up and running.

Do you also live in Texas?

Still waiting for mine to ship. I'm guessing it will arrive on Wednesday like most people.

zenkix wrote:Do you also live in Texas?

Still waiting for mine to ship. I'm guessing it will arrive on Wednesday like most people.

Still waiting on mine to ship. Weird, some people have theirs, and some havent even shipped.

moneyfornothing wrote:Still waiting on mine to ship. Weird, some people have theirs, and some havent even shipped.

I'm in the same boat. Mine still hasn't shipped yet it seems, and I live in Texas, lol.

So don't worry if you still haven't gotten a shipment notification. I emailed customer service, even though it seemed daunting with all their 'are you sure you want to contact us' lol

"We typically process and ship out orders within 5 business days, not including the date of the purchase. Once your order is set to ship you should receive an email with tracking.

Kam"

So I am assuming that we all bought it on the 30th and if 5 business days were counted on the 31st then they technically will ship by Tuesday the 6th. We're probably looking at a Friday delivery date, if we all get lucky. I'll keep my fingers crossed on that one.


Good luck to everyone and keep on wooting.

moneyfornothing wrote:Still waiting on mine to ship. Weird, some people have theirs, and some havent even shipped.

yeah i agree its weird situation to be in Lol,

rogue002 wrote:On a separate note, does anyone have any experience with the Hauppauge 2250 TV Tuner card? I was going to pick on up to use as a Media center.
Thoughts?

I would recommend looking at the Silicon Dust HomeRun dual tuner for over-the-air (OTA) free HDTV capture.

It's a tuner that you can use from any PC on your home network, and works over WiFi for watching or recording. Dual tuner means two PCs can watch different stuff or you can watch one thing and record another. They also have a model that takes CableCards for tuning/recording cable channels, although if the Cable company puts the "do-not-record" flag on the signal, your Media Center will honor it, but will let you watch the show live. That has nothing to do with the Tuner, but rather the cable company. I don't think those flags are being set/used by any of the OTA broadcasters, though.

IMHO, a much more flexible solution than tying your TV watching/recording to just your HTPC. I have my HTPC hooked up and it just grabs the tuner whenever it needs to, same as any other PC on my network, and it doesn't care whether your network is wired or wireless/WiFi.

moneyfornothing wrote:Still waiting on mine to ship. Weird, some people have theirs, and some havent even shipped.

Last time I ordered something from woot I got the shipping notification 2 days after I got the item.

jands wrote:Last time I ordered something from woot I got the shipping notification 2 days after I got the item.

The same thing happened with my friend's laptop order, so I'm hopeful. However, I would think the order status under 'My Account' would be accurate. Did you happen to check that periodically with your last order?

Mine should be out mid next week!

As well as 16gb Crucial RAM, 450w PS, and 2 more 1 TB HDDs. Plan to Raid 1 them for my storage partition.

I'll wait to see what I think of the Vid card.

Later on I may look into some TV or Vid input.

gitarzan wrote:Mine should be out mid next week!

As well as 16gb Crucial RAM, 450w PS, and 2 more 1 TB HDDs. Plan to Raid 1 them for my storage partition.

I'll wait to see what I think of the Vid card.

Going to be mostly used for Internet, MP3 and Photo Storage and processing. Only games I play are card games.

Later on I may look into some TV or Vid input.

can you share a link or share a suggestion to purchase the additional RAM? thank you sir! >

ncodec wrote:can you share a link or share a suggestion to purchase the additional RAM? thank you sir! >

I bought this X2"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GJL5U6/ref=ox_ya_os_product

mike808 wrote:I would recommend looking at the Silicon Dust HomeRun dual tuner for over-the-air (OTA) free HDTV capture.

It's a tuner that you can use from any PC on your home network, and works over WiFi for watching or recording. Dual tuner means two PCs can watch different stuff or you can watch one thing and record another. They also have a model that takes CableCards for tuning/recording cable channels, although if the Cable company puts the "do-not-record" flag on the signal, your Media Center will honor it, but will let you watch the show live. That has nothing to do with the Tuner, but rather the cable company. I don't think those flags are being set/used by any of the OTA broadcasters, though.

IMHO, a much more flexible solution than tying your TV watching/recording to just your HTPC. I have my HTPC hooked up and it just grabs the tuner whenever it needs to, same as any other PC on my network, and it doesn't care whether your network is wired or wireless/WiFi.

Thanks for your well thought out reply. I looked at the home run but I just don't know if I would ever watch TV on a laptop or other computer. I have TV's in most of the rooms in my house and I was just considering getting media center extenders for the other rooms. I will take a second look at the Home run.

Thanks again,