HP Pavilion Slimline s5160f Tests (Media Center)

Blu-ray drive, TV tuner, HDMI output ; Stylish glossy black chassis

Poor overall performance ; No gigabit ethernet

The included TV tuner and Blu-ray player are the best features of this trimmed-down HP machine, but you pay a lot for them.

HP pitches its Pavilion Slimline s5160f desktop PC as “made for multimedia.” But if your definition of multimedia includes hardcore games, steer a wide berth around this machine. It's a capable enough computer for digital photography, music, TV, and...

Small and very quiet; includes Blu-ray drive ; TV tuner ; wireless mouse ; keyboard and lots of memory; great value for the money

Video card can't handle intense games; virtually no internal expansion opportunities; no eSATA or FireWire ports

This little machine has plenty of horsepower for everything except hardcore games.

very disappointed

I have had loads of trouble getting this computer/software combination to play blu-ray movies. I bought it strictly as an entertainmnet computer to play music, internet radio, TV, and movies, including blu-rays. At first it worked after some...

Works as advertised

It's a physically small, fast computer with no expansion capabilities and no COM1 or LPT port. No surprise if you read the specs before buying. I am very pleased with ease of setup and features.

HP Pavilion Slimline S5160F Desktop PC

Works well, great purchase. However note the product was not as advertised. The built in wireless feature was not built in but provided via an external wireless usb drive, very disappointing.