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Advantages: The price,it,s fantastic value
Disadvantages: Noisy hard drive

I brought this from comet just before christmas 06. It was a good price £299.But i upgraded the standerd 15in moniter to a 17 in so it was £329. this was one of the main reasons i decided to buy this it seamed a good price for a low budget. 3yrs warrantly £79.99 features:1.6GHz processor speed 1600mhz processor bus processoer cache 256kb 512mbmemory 80gb storage Plays and records cds and dvds windows XP media centre 6 ubs ports and fire ...
...mouse included So far had no problems with it. It was very easy to register and set up providing you have a little experience with pcs . The graphics are great ,as i listen to music though the pc i also brought speakers as these are not included in the price. The speed is great i,ve not noticed it to be slower than other pcs i,ve used. We,ve played online games and they load up in a second. Also played dvds they load up insantly and the picture ... Read review

Advantages: Inexpensive, stylish looks, easily upgradeable
Disadvantages: Rubbish speakers, could have more RAM

...and word processing on the Acer machine. Not long after I got it, I did upgrade the RAM, but that's easy and cheap to put another 1GB in yourself from eBay, only costs around £40. I also upgraded the video card for around £100, but then you've got a good processor, high enough RAM to run Windows Vista and good games and also a good graphics card to be able to play games at higher resolutions, but still the computer and the upgrades is a lot less ...
...good brand and have been getting better over the years and they do built inexpensive, but good quality machines. My Aspire T120e did me very good for a number of years and is still going strong with someone else. The only bad point is the rubbish speakers (although nicely powered by USB so no need for an extra power socket) mine never worked out of the box, but I wouldn't use them anyway cos they don't have much power. I bought the Packard Bell ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, Powerful Budget Computer
Disadvantages: Hard Drive can be a bit noisy

...value for the price. Acer have made it very easy to overclock the CPU and RAM speeds via the BIOS, and my computer easily handles an increase from the 200Mhz sidebus up to 225Mhz, which brought the CPU speed up to 2.0Ghz without any increase in temperature or instability. However i would reccomend further cooling and a bigger power supply just to be safe if you want to take it further than this. The only downside to this PC (and i'm not sure if ...
...that the Hard Disk is very noisy at times. It really is quite noisy, especially when scanning or transferring files, and seeing as my pc only has 256mb of ram it uses the hard disk more. However, it is easy to drown out the sound of the HD, i just put the tower in a cupboard and i put music on whilst i'm using the pc. The onboard Realtek AC97 audio controller is very good; what many people don't realise is that you can configure the 3 ports to incorporate ... Read review

Advantages: Fast and easy to upgrade
Disadvantages: not the most attractive (if your into astetics)

...I was very pleased to find all the hp products and support that i was looking for easy to access and all help services are pre-installed on the machine so accessories and peripherals are easy to add at a later date. I hope this helps you choose this wonderfull pc. ... Read review

Advantages: Quick, Cheap
Disadvantages: Better (albeit more expensive products) are out there

...* Hard disk controller HP Embedded 6 Port SATA Controller with embedded RAID (4 ports for HDD) * Internal drive bays Four 3.5" Non Hot Plug SATA * Optical drives DVD-RW * Internal mass storage Maximum 2 TB (4 x 500 GB) SATA System features * Chassis type Micro ATX Tower * Chipset Intel 3200 Chipse Networking & Expansion * Network interface Embedded NC105i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter * External I/O ports Parallel - 0; Serial - 1; Pointing ...
...- 1; USB - 8 total (4 rear, 2 front panel, 2 internal (one for USB Tape connectivity)); Network RJ-45 (Ethernet) - 1; Management: Optional Lights-Out 100c Remote Management port * Expansion slots Expansion Slots: Slot 1: 32-bit/33MHz PCI at 3.3V slot; Slot 2, 3: PCI-Express x8 connector with x1 link; Slot 4: PCI-Express X8 connector with x8 link Power * Power supply type 365 Watts Power Supply * Power requirements 90 to 132 VAC, 180 to 264 VAC; ... Read review