I broke down and bought a new computer. After having my last PC for a good four or five years, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to lay down some cash on a new one.

Since I do all my work remote, it is something that I need to have to make an income – so why not spend a little extra? That was my internal argument before hitting the buy button for this beauty.

I ended up going with the HP Pavilion Elite and I am pretty darn happy. Of course, I had better be because the final price was a little over $2,000.

Here is the run down on all the geeky stats:

Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600(2.4GHz)
Memory 3GB DDR2 667 (2 x 1GB & 2 x 512MB)
Hard Drive 1000GB 7200RPM SATA
Optical Drive 1 SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
Optical Drive 2 DVD-ROM drive 16x max. speed
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card with 640MB dedicated video memory, Up to 1919MB Total Available Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows Vista
Audio Integrated High Definition audio
Wireless Card Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n
Operating System Windows Vista Ultimate

You can get the rest of the specs on it over at NewEgg.com.

So was it worth it? So far – yes! Why HP? I have owned now 3 HP machines (4 counting the laptop) and they have always done me right as far as support and quality of the machines. I am just now getting out of the setting up phase and into the tweaking phase.