HP Core i7

HP Core i7 desktops

This deal is only a couple of dollars cheaper than a Dick Smith $999 Core i7 notebook.

Do not get us wrong this Harvey Norman $994 HP is still the best notebook bargain yet a big powerful allrounder machine that normally sells at around the $1300 mark.

But it is not one of dozens of crazy specials.

Both Dell & Gateway launched Core i7 PCs in time with Intel's announcement of its new chip family last November.

A Harvey Norman $994 deal for a Core i7 HP 3132TX notebook is the best we can find so far.

We don not know why HP has waited to make the switch.

But with today's announcement of the Pavilion Elite m9600 desktop series.

A quad-core Core i7equipped HP can be yours starting at $949.

We have found Intel's Core i7 chips very fast, especially in the most demanding tasks

like consumer-level digital media editing and multitasking.

Core i7 has also been hailed as an expensive platform,

as Intel is the only source for the necessary motherboard chipset,

which also requires DDR3 memory, a pricier standard than more common DDR2 RAM.

Those extra expenses are largely why AMD's Phenom and Phenom II,

Intel's own Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad chips are still common in lower end retail desktops,

although it remains likely that Intel will continue to ease pricing throughout 2009 to ensure wider Core i7 adoption.

Options for HP's new configurable Pavilion Elite m9600's are otherwise unremarkable.

The only exception might be that the default 3D card,

an Nvidia GeForce 9600GS, has 768MB of RAM, & all of the step-up models are 1GB cards.

And here we'd just gotten used to the proliferation of 512MB cards.

The larger video memory allotments won't guarantee fast PC gaming for all,

but they will certainly help.

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