Any reasons to not buy this?

[avanalarf]

I am looking for a computer for general usage, including occasional photo and video editing, and also it would be nice to play some up-to-date games now and then.

One I've come across is a Packard Bell desktop: Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

It's well inside my price range, the specifications suggest that this would be an excellent machine to buy and the reviews seem to be very positive - any possible downsides to it that I've missed?

[bednobs]

no monitor with it

[MarkRae]

Seems OK. What monitor do you have...?

[avanalarf]

That's ok bednobs, I am prepared to buy a monitor separately.

[ChuckFickens]

Seems reasonable for the price (my nephew has the i5 version of it, it's not a badly made computer)

[wendilla]

My last computer was Packard Bell for which I had for a few years . Also play on line games main one being Dominoes. I now have packard Bell with windows 7 and well pleased with it. I just use mine for general use e mails ,photos, messenger, games ect.

[AlBags]

Looks ok to me .. not the best of graphics card (considering latest games requirements) but good for the cash.

[wendilla]

Only downside I would have is I would rather buy something like that locally such as pc world or currys.You can get good deals there at this time of year.

[AlBags]

... but it has HDMI (which is HDCP compliant) so it should plug and play into a HD screen ok without fiddling (extra output) Also DX11.

[avanalarf]

Thanks all for your replies. Since nothing especially negative has been said, I think I'll go for it.

I do have an HD tv so can always use that as an alternative to a monitor (at least until I can decide on which to buy). I'm not a regular game player these days but wouldn't mind being able to try some of the releases that my 6 year old laptop is completely incapable of running, so I suspect that it will good enough for me (I'm not interested in FPS which I would guess is the most graphics intensive genre).