HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y first look

You might find it tempting to look at the HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y's $450 price tag and consider it a bargain. Think again. With mediocre-to-slow performance, underwhelming features, and a few design gaffes, this Slimline sits on the same forlorn raft as the Dell Inspiron 537s, floating out to the Island of Out-of-Date PCs. As you can perhaps tell, we don't recommend this system.

We like the softer, friendlier look of the HP's new glossy black front panel, and overall HP's slimtower case is smaller than Dell's, which might best be called a slim midtower. Both HP and Dell (especially) tower over the Gateway SX2800-01, but at least Dell gives you more upgrade options in exchange for its larger size. HP deserves credit for taking the slimtower concept to the mainstream market, and as before this new Slimline's physical dimensions would work well in a either a living room or an office setting. We just hope that HP is paying attention now that Gateway has taken the slimtower concept further.

We also miss the external drive bay port in HP's older Slimlines. Previously, if you pulled down a small door at the bottom of a Slimline you'd find a port for HP's proprietary Pocket Media removable hard drives. We never liked the case-cluttering full-size Personal Media drive in HP's Pavilion Elite midtower systems, but the Pocket Media drive in the Slimline always made sense, given the limited amount of room to upgrade the system and the Pocket Media drive's compact size. We don't know how many people actually purchased the Pocket Media drive accessories, and it's certainly possible that the drive slot disappeared because of a lack of consumer interest. But with room for only a single internal hard drive in this new case, anyone who might want to upgrade the internal storage will miss the Pocket Media drive option.

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[delvecchio14]

any graphic card 4 this one ?

[onebadbirdy]

i have a hp like this but mine is a s5370t and it works great ive about had my hp for about 2yrs and it runs everything just fine but only thing i wanted to give it was lights but found i couldn't unless i upgrade i guess my power supply i guess first i guess but do love my hp

[MrHgob]

i have one and its great

[kingretard100]

damit lol i just won one for 19cents on beezid.com :/ and i find out it sucks lol

[genefury75]

i have one mine works just fine and it's fast and i use it for business no problems

[AssasinShadowed]

@TheAngryAmericanwon Any chance of a link mate? Much aprpreciated :)

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

@AssasinShadowed I want to recommend buying the Nvidia graphics card, I added this to my computer and its is great! I too am using this computer it came with 7 premium but I purchased and installed windows 7 professional SP1, I am so impressed with this.. very amazed. all is 64 bit, 4 GB of ram and going to upgrade that to 8gb of ram! so all and all, this is an excellent computer.

[MrHossCartwright]

My brother and I each had the one you talked about with the Pocket Media Drive at the bottom (which I never understood what was?). Mine got so virus infected (or whatever happened) that it wouldn't even stay on for more than a couple minutes before shutting back off. I finally had to buy a different computer. Later, my brothers Slimline started getting scrambled screens and losing files he had saved. Then it eventually wouldn't go back on at all. He ordered a new motherboard, still won't work.

[socomt5]

we bought a S 5000 and it wouldnt even turn on. Hp wants money to repair something that never worked. hp will never get our business again .. they call themselves a computer manufacturer, but they dropped the ball this time .

[netskater4454]

@AssasinShadowed anything that has low pro in its name