Years ago we bought an HP Pavilion from FutureShop (our first outta-the-box system...our previous PCs were custom-built at local shops).
At the time the FS salesguy told us it had a 4gB harddrive. Back in the day that was the typical HD size available.
When we got it home and outta the box - I quickly discovered almost half the harddrive was filled with the HP-modified Windows OS.
As soon as I started stripping junk and various unneeded multimedia modules from the OS, the system crapped out.
We wound up buying a fresh copy of Windows, formating the HP...and putting our own OS on it.
In the two years we owned it, we went through FOUR different M50 monitors - all of them had various problems. Granted, HP replaced them under warranty each time, but the system was laid up during each replacement.
First and last Hewlett-Packie system we ever owned.
