I am an HP fanatic! I only purchase HP computers, printers, and calculators. I'm convinced they proficiently test their products so I'm not left with some driver problem or IRQ problem. I have been burned with hand built computers as well as other computers manufactured by HPs competitors.

The gotchas to me are the following:
1) no restore disk -- HP is a bit fanatical about not making
those available.
2) It seems as though only HP DVDs work with the machine.
I tried DVDs from Imation, TDK, and HP.
3) The box is too small. I personally have a system of
always putting 2 hard drives in a machine. The drive
that comes with the computer holds applications and
windows. The drive I install in is usually used for
data. To back up my data, I simply back up the drive
and I'm done. The box size is so small, I have to
remove the mother board to insert another hard drive.

The amount of memory and speed makes it a non problem. It does photos like there is no tomorrow.

One note of caution, I had a HP photosmart 315 digital camera, it doesn't work on XP, HP didn't do the drivers, weird since it is a HP computer.

Also the mouse and keyboard are USB, so I was able to plug them into my monitor which has 4 USB ports, so I have plenty.

I LOVE it