HP Pavilion HPE h8-1256s Desktop PC

Designed for powerful performance and elegance

Get serious about computing with the HP Pavilion HPE h8-1256s PC, a stylish, high-performance PC for your most demanding digital tasks. Premium performance levels enable an optimized experience whether you're working, e-mailing, editing photos or videos, gaming or connecting with friends online. The HP Pavilion HPE h8-1256s PC's expandability lets you add devices and features to support your growing needs. The elegant accented design will attract attention in any home décor.

• Handles multiple demanding projects easily and simultaneously.


• Top-positioned power button enables convenient use.


• A built-in valet tray on top of the tower provides convenient access and cable management for a variety of small peripherals and accessories.


• A sliding panel offers quick access to front-mounted ports while keeping them hidden when they're not in use.


• The front-panel 15-in-1 memory card reader makes it easy to transfer photos, music, and other files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices.


• Convenient, tool-free access to various internal components makes user upgrades a snap.


• The HP Pavilion HPE h8 PC also features Integrated Bluetooth and Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n networking.

Maximize your viewing experience

Improve your productivity with an HP Pavilion desktop with built-in HP Multi-Display Capable technology that supports two or three monitors at once so you can mega-task: e-mail, research, chat, browse the Web, edit photos, watch videos---all at the same time with more room than ever before. Play your games the way they were intended---without cramming controls and information on top of the action. With support for three monitors, the HP Pavilion desktop series lets you take advantage of powerful graphics cards like the Radeon HD 7570 with Eyefinity wrap-around multi-display capabilities for a more intense gaming experience.

Latest processor technology

New Intel Core Processors plus HP-exclusive features propel you into a vivid PC experience. Extra speed and performance adapts to your needs while delivering spectacular visuals in a smooth, seamless flow. With HP convenience and security, it's an unbeatable combination. HP + Intel: It's not just the speed, it's the experience.

HP Premier Experience

The HP Premier Experience focuses on the things that matter most: a simplified Start Menu, less interruptions, and exclusive and convenient innovations like HP Magic Canvas and HP LinkUp. It's cleaner, faster, intuitive, and only on HP.

HP Magic Canvas -- Transform your desktop into a fun and interactive interface where you can open, organize, and play with an unlimited amount of HP and Windows files and applications---all on your own personalized background.

• The more you open, the bigger your Magic Canvas grows---so you can conveniently spread out an endless amount of files, photos, and applications with unlimited desktop space.
• Customizable Carousel: Keep all of your favorite items and applications together in an easy-to-access, revolving Carousel.
• Multitask master: Get the best of both HP and Windows by accessing your Windows start menu, task bar, and desktop icons without leaving Magic Canvas.
• Scrolling navigation: Simply scroll, using your mouse, to browse all of your open content on the Magic Canvas and Carousel in a fun sequence of windows that shift side to side.

HP LinkUp software lets you access the content and programs on your notebook from your HP desktop PC ---without file mix-ups or complex synchronization.

• All of your files and applications stay up to date on your notebook, while you access them from your desktop.
• No cables or docking stations required---once you install the free client software on your notebook PC, it links up with your HP desktop through your wireless home network.

Fine-tuned Windows 7 experience.

• Simplified Start Menu to find and launch applications faster with improved organization in Windows 7.
• Turbocharge your Windows 7 experience with quicker boot-up, shutdown, sleep, and resume times.
• Reduced notifications and pop-ups so that you can concentrate on the tasks at hand.