Regular readers are familiar with our quarterly Grand Openings surveys, imaginary shopping sprees where we visit vendors' Web sites to find how much PC we can buy on a $1,000 budget. Today, on a very special Grand Openings, we have a hands-on test of just such a system: the HP Pavilion 753n, a holiday-buying-season desktop now in stock at a superstore near you, monitor not included, for $999 (or $999.97, if you shop at profit-crazed CompUSA).
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