I couldn't pass this one up at Sam's club this week:

P4, 540, 250GB 7200RPM HD, TV card, Radio card, 19" flat screen monitor ...... too many cool things to mention till I test drive it.
It has a cool "swappable" USB drive bay in front and provisions to dock and HP camera right on top of the unit!

I'm giving one of my laptops to Dad to take to Florida, and this one will replace my office setup. I'll report more after I set it up. This looks like a cool PC. It burns plus and minus DVD's as well as CDs. Wireless kb and mouse too.

I'm pumped.

Sounds cool, looks cool... how many $$$?

Something like $1698 I think.

Hi Uncle Dave, I was wondering what you thought about your new hp pc. I'am thinking about buying one. Just wanted to know if it seemed like a stable and dependable system. Just left Sams I was very tempted but wanted another opinion first. Thanks

It's still in the box. I'm all backed up on a CD project this month and have no time to even set it up. I'm living between the studio and stage with NO time for anything else. Yawn............. I need 2 more weeks - then I might get a break!

I bought the M1195C from Sam's Club on Nov 13. It went back on Nov 20. It had a problem freezing, up to 10 seconds twice or more a minute. I went online to HP Help and they tried a couple of things. But, the system comes with 512 memory, apparently not nearly enough to operate the system. I'm not going to pull the 512 and go out and buy a Gig of memory, that may or may not fix the problem. When I returned it, the return desk said even their demo froze at time to time. I'd love to have it on my desk, but...
If someone knows any other "fix" let me know and I'll consider buying another and trying it. But, I hear Sony has a good Media Center.
Ron

Hmmmmmm.... Mine is still in the box. Maybe I should go back to Sam's and play with the display unit again b4 I open mine up.
I have no problem adding 1GB of memory ... I planned to anyway.

Sorry that this is a little off of the subject of the forum. Ron, I have the same unit (HP m1195c) and it has a freezing problem as well. It had a bad DVD-RW drive at first, I got that replaced and upgraded to 1Gb of Ram but it still freezes a few times every hour. Makes it hard to get any practical use out of all the DVR hardware. There is also a post about one on the MS forums about it, but it doesn't solve the problem. It may be related to the USB components from what I've read on other sites. I have yet to call HP about it though, perhaps they have a solution by now.

Yikes !