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Brand	HP
Operating System	Windows 8
Memory Storage Capacity	500 GB
Ram Memory Installed Size	4 GB
Model Name	hp 300
Color	Black
Special Feature	Microphone
CPU Manufacturer	Intel
Wireless network technology	Wi-Fi
Connectivity Technology	Ethernet, LAN, HDMI, Wi Fi

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Intel? Pentium? 3558U with Intel HD Graphics (1.7 GHz, 2 MB cache, 2 cores)Graphics (1.7 GHz, 2 MB cache, 2 cores)
4GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM, 500GB Serial ATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
802.11b/g/n (1x1) and Bluetooth? 4.0 combo, 4 USB 3.0, 1 headphone/microphone combo
3-in-1 memory card reader, Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN, DisplayPort, HDMI, Tiny size, only weighs 1.47 lbs, 2 inch tall
Windows 8.1 64 bit, Upgrade to Windows 10 for free

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Product specifications See below for important legal information HP Data Sheet View Document Operating system Windows 8.1 64 Processor Intel Pentium 3558U with Intel HD Graphics (1.7 GHz, 2 MB cache, 2 cores) Graphics Intel HD Graphics Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L (1 x 4 GB) Maximum memory Upgradeable to 16 GB Memory slots 2 SODIMM Hard drive 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA Memory card device 3-in-1 memory card reader Network interface Integrated 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet LAN Wireless 802.11b/g/n (1x1) and Bluetooth 4.0 combo Power supply 45 W external AC power adapter Ports 4 USB 3.0; 1 headphone/microphone combo Energy efficiency ENERGY STAR certified; EPEAT Silver registered Audio DTS Sound+ Keyboard Wireless island-style with volume control, dedicated hotkeys Dimensions 5.71 x 5.71 x 2.13 in Weight 1.46 lb Warranty 1-year limited hardware warranty, toll-free technical support; 90-day limited software technical support (from date of purchase)

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September 29, 2015

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fuel98rider

Nice little replacement for an all-in-one

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2016

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Nice little computer that I use behind a monitor in my kitchen. It is basically a web surfing and homework tool for my kids in this capacity. The hard drive will hold a fair amount, including MS Office and some Adobe programs. It is not a high end graphical unit, so don't expect it to be a gaming machine. When paired with an HP touchscreen and Windows 10, it is a perfect little replacement to an all-in-one unit.

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Jose Gamez

Don't work after HP tool software update

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2016

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I received on 08 January, work ok, upgraded to Windows 10 without problems, software update of HP indicates that must be updated BIOS programs are executed and requested restart, after screen went black, keyboard, mouse, wifi, hdmi stopped not working. power on/off ok, disk sound ok, Operative system don't work. I going to return device.

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It has Windows included, not a barebone

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015

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Low price, big quality

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Jing Zhu

Nice Computer

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015

The performance of the HP Pavilion Mini is good enough for reading, writing, watching a video, and browsing the internet (with occasional lag); if you're playing games, editing video, or working with many programs then the Pavilion Mini might be a bad idea (instead spend $1000-1200 on a gaming quality desktop).

Upgrading the RAM from 4GB to 10GB improves the performance somewhat, and also makes upgrading the SSD nearly mandatory because the extra RAM will make the computer use most of the rest of the default 32GB SSD for the recovery partition (a 2GB or 4GB RAM upgrade would work without needing to upgrade the SSD). The next bottleneck after the RAM is the CPU, which can't be replaced, so don't expect to play games or edit video on this. After the upgrades, it still lags with a bunch of browser tabs open at once

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vivian ren

Excellent Little One...

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2015

First ,very cute. I was amazed at how tiny this desktop is. The entire PC is probably the size of an old phone! If you intend to use your computer to get on the internet, access cloud-based services, watching videos (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) and do light productivity work (word processing, spreadsheets, slide decks, etc), then you can't go wrong with this computer. Overall, it is perfect for what we need. Quick recovery from Standby, no issues streaming Netflix, and ease of use for a child. The price is right, too! I highly recommend this machine.

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Tired of set-top boxes that don't come with the channels you want, or don't play all your local media files??? Then get this!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015

Finding the right media player for your television can be daunting. Most of the offers available have a fixed set of "channels" from which to choose - like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other, more specialized channels like MLB or NHL. For over three years, I've been on a quest to find an affordable solution that will allow me to stream any or all of those. Sadly, there isn't a set-top box that satisfies all of it. There's always something missing. While I fell in love with the WDTV Live because it can play - without transcoding - all of my media files in FLAC and MKV formats (my two favorite), it did NOT have Amazon Prime or the NHL GameCenter applications. I'm also the owner of a Roku 3, and I love it. It has most of the channels I want (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, NHL, and a few others). However, the Roku 3 is a compression-monger. If you try to play your personal media files to it from a network-attached storage device (NAS), the Roku gets very, very picky about containers and file formats. The alternative would be to buy a new NAS that can "transcode" (read: compress) all my media files so the Roku can play them, but that's expensive and consumes more power than I'm comfortable with. So until recently, I had a Roku 3 AND a WDTV Live hooked up to my TV, and would switch back and forth between them depending upon what I wanted to do. It cluttered my living room with remotes and was confusing to use for people at home who don't have a natural ability to understand electronics.

Enter the HP Pavilion Mini. Because it is a PC, there's nothing it can't do. Netflix? Easy, just go to netflix.com in a browser, then expand the screen. Done. Amazon Prime? Same thing. NHL GameCenter? No problem - same thing. What about streaming wonky file formats from a NAS or USB drive? I just downloaded a media player called VLC (free) which can handle just about anything, and for hi-resolution music (FLAC files at or above 16-bit/44 kHz), I use a paid software called JRiver, but even then, one doesn't need to pay anything to play those types of files. This thing hooks up to a TV with a HDMI cable and comes with a wireless keyboard and mouse. You're good to go right out of the box.

Modifications:

I read online that a few modest changes to the PC will make it even faster, longer lasting, and more responsive. However, one does NOT need to do any of what I did below in order to use this as a HTPC or streaming box. It works fine as is for TV and most applications (browsing, MS Office, etc.). Opening the PC for upgrading is a snap, and there are YouTube videos out there showing how to do it. For the modifications below, I opened the PC up, and left the cover off while I installed different components.

1. SSD vs. HDD. The unit comes with a 500 GB hard-drive (HDD) based on the 2.5" laptop standard, and it is a platter-drive. This means its read/write times are a bit slower than you might be used to with tablets. The drive is sufficiently large as is, and the OS boots up cleanly, and everything runs on it just fine. However, SSDs are much quicker, though smaller. I had the desire to minimize bootup time and speed up browsing and what not, so I bought a Transcend 256GB SSD and installed it. I recommend this modification because it will minimize the time for so many tasks. The 128 GB and 64GB varieties will also work, but I caution against going down to the 32 GB SSD. Windows will take up most of it, and you'll be left with practically no space for things like Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever. For putting the OS onto a SSD, be sure to follow these steps:

a) Upgrade to Windows 10, if it doesn't come with the PC already (mine had 8.1 on it). Write down your Windows product key code.

b) Buy a USB 3.0 compatible flash drive no less than 32 GBs in size, and create a Windows image on the flash drive.

c) Remove the USB drive, and shut everything down.

d) Open the back cover, then disconnect the plug to the HDD. You don't need to remove the drive; just let the connector hang there so the drive doesn't get power.

e) Insert the SSD in the appropriate slot. Of the two M.2 slots, I think it's the one on the right. There are YouTube videos showing where it goes if you get lost.

f) Leave the HDD unplugged. Put the USB stick back into one of the USB slots, and power up the PC. The PC will get confused because it can't find a bootable OS because you disconnected the boot drive in step d above. The OS also won't like the SSD you just put in there because it doesn't have a boot sector or an OS on it (or anything at all, really), so now it will automatically start checking other drives (this all happens in an instant). It will see a bootable OS on your flash drive, and use that to boot. Note: in the olden days, we used to have to hit a key sequence to go into the PC's BIOS to tell it which drive to boot to. The HP Mini Pavilion's BIOS will figure out what I wrote above on its own - it will just go looking for boot sectors until it finds the one on your USB drive, so be sure you leave the HDD unplugged at this point.

g) Answer the on-screen questions. If it asks you for your Windows code key, you can either give it the code you wrote down above, or just skip this step (yes, it will still load and boot to Windows, believe it or not). It will give you the option of where to install, and you should see your new SSD in the list - it should be the ONLY option (since your HDD is still unplugged). Select that drive and it will install Windows there.

h) Be sure to pull your USB drive out of the USB slot once you've loaded Windows for the FIRST time. If you leave it in there, it might try to reboot to it during one of its many restarts during the installation procedure. I'm not sure this is the case because I remembered to yank my USB drive out, but I've seen this happen before back in the days of booting to a CD-ROM drive, so be sure you pull the USB stick out.

i) Once Windows is up and running on your SSD, reboot once more for good measure. Then shut down. Your back cover should still be removed, so now just plug the HDD back in, and boot up Windows once more.

j) Windows should load normally, and it will boot to your new SSD. You'll notice it is a "clean install," and so none of HP's bloatware is present anymore. However, the OS will load the HDD as a secondary drive (probably D: or E:), but the HDD still has all of your OLD installation of Windows, all the HP bloatware, and any files you put there on the drive. If you want the full 500 GBs of the HDD to be fully "yours," you'll need to delete some partitions. You can't do this natively - HP won't let you, Windows will block you from doing that as well because it recognizes that the partition has recovery data on it, so you'll need to go download a free program called Partition Magic. Otherwise, if you DON'T want to use the HDD at all, you're free to remove it by unscrewing the four screws on the corners and sliding it out, OR you can just leave it unplugged and tuck the plug/cord back into the PC. Personally, I wanted to be able to use the extra 500 GBs for additional on-board storage as a secondary drive.

k) In Partition Magic, find the HDD and then delete everything on the drive, starting with the large partition and moving to the small one (the large one is your old Windows OS, the small one was HP's backup/recovery partition). Once that's done, use the "combine" tool to combine all the partitions that were on there into one. Now you have a clean 500 GB secondary drive that you can use for additional storage, now that your OS is on your SSD. Reboot just to make sure it all worked - it should boot to the SSD, and put the HDD as a secondary drive (most likely D: or E:), which is now totally blank and ready for you to use.

l) If you did NOT enter your Windows code during reinstallation above (that's what I did), and you ARE connected to the internet, Windows will figure out what to do, connect to the Microsoft mothership, and your Windows key code will be updated to your PC automatically. I'm not sure what MS does to recognize the PC, but it isn't based on the hard drive. It probably has something to do with the CPU in the Pavilion, but regardless, I found this to be super easy.

Upgrading the wifi card to a 5 GHz ac standard M.2 card is similar to upgrading the SSD, except you won't need to monkey with Windows, and you will use the M.2 slot on the left. Personally, I use wired internet whenever I can, so I skipped this step entirely, as the location for this PC is within 12" of my WAN/LAN junction switch behind my TV. If you're concerned about this, rest assured, gigabit switches are cheap and super useful. Here's the one I have , and it works great to get all my devices a solid, wired connection without the need to go wi-fi. Alternatively, if your cable or DSL modem is too far away, you could always use your home's powerlines as a wired ethernet extension. Here's the kit I used in the past and it works great.

2. Upgrading the memory. This is easier, and it's super cheap to do. You'll want to do this because the HP comes with 4 GBs of memory running in single band mode - opening up the CPU to run in dual band mode makes things super quick and snappy. I'm very impressed with this upgrade. The chip I bought was a Crucial 4GB Single DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) . Again there are YouTube videos on how to make the upgrade. The only tricky thing is that you have to press lightly until you hear the sides snap into place. If you don't hear the snap, then it's either the wrong type of memory or it's crooked. No need to muck with Windows. Just shut down the PC, drop the chip in there, then turn it back on. Windows will automatically recognize the extra memory and start running in dual band mode on its own. Also, for what it's worth, expanding the memory helps the machine in a non-linear fashion. What this means is that while the PC can take maximum memory up to 32 GBs, the "sweet spot" is 8 GBs of memory. Going above 8 GBs brings only nominal benefit that you probably won't notice. So keep that in mind.

3. While not an upgrade per se, I found that an external USB BluRay drive really makes this thing a well-rounded HTPC unit. I bought the SAMSUNG TSST SE-506CB/RSWD 6X USB 2.0 Slim Blu-ray Writer External Drive (White) and it works flawlessly. Granted, the drive itself does not come with the software required to play BluRay movies, it does come with the software necessary to burn BR, DVD, and CD discs just fine.

Anyway, if you can't find the perfect set-top box, and you want a HTPC that doesn't break the bank, you can't go wrong with the HP Pavilion Mini.

EDIT: Incidentally, I've never seen this for sale at amazon cheaper than the manufacturer, even with Prime. So keep that in mind. I got mine from their website for $270 out the door.

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