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Advantages: Compact, Stylish, Value for money
Disadvantages: A little slow when opening up a number of programs at one go

Since my Toshiba M30 harddisk broke down, I decided to go for an iMac as i had been craving for one for ages!!! As a first timer using Macs, I found the controls and mouse foreign BUT it was really easy to pick it up and I found that it was so easy to open a few programs, switch to multiple views and select which one you wanted to see. An easy example would be switching between 3 webpages where you can view all 3 pages and select the one that had ...
...a fair number of programs such as word, safaris and adium, it took awhile for loading. Also, the graphic is not exactly fantastic for those art users or gamings although it is enough to view movies and meddle around. If speed is of great importance though, you can always just upgrade your ram as you buy the computer because there is only 1 ram slot. For the value, I would say this is an all round Mac with the latest technology to suit most people ... Read review

Advantages: Monitor, Business, Keyboard, Look.
Disadvantages: Slow, Heavy, Space taker.

Well the Dell Dimension 2400 I could say is pretty good for business purposes. Dell does let you customize it but its more of a business system. Its not really all that fast, it has two ram slots no agp slot. Which means no video card, which means no high quality good games. How ever I recommend this system for typing, at home jobs, and for searching purposes. Pretty good size monitor but thats about it. Works with windows xp and lower O.S. Read review

Advantages: Fast 2GB RAM, Fast DL DVD Writer, Fast wireless adapter and fast hard drive
Disadvantages: Misadvertisement of graphics card in some cases.

This is an excellent PC; due to it's high specs and other reasons: The core 2 duo processor was top range on release The 2 GB RAM runs at DDR667 which was the fastest on release The DL DVD Writer is very fast and has light scribe It has a fast wireless adapter built in and also a TV tuner The 400GB Hard Drive is EXTREMELY FAST and QUIET; it has a burst speed of 200+ MB/S on the SATA 300 Interface It has 'easy to access' ports at front! However ... Read review

Advantages: Very Sleek, Full Of Extras And No Unsightly Wiring Everywhere
Disadvantages: Inefficient Cooling Due To Sleek Case, Possible unreliability Due To High Operating Temperatures

...although i must admit that hp were kind enough to replace its hard disk drive twice in less than a month. 5 stars for that HP! but really in my own personal opinion this machine is heavily overpriced considering its performance. although it does look nice its comes with windows vista home premium installed which makes light work of this pc's lack of resources. and not forgetting the temperature issue, i have at this very moment checked the temperates ...
...load, (ie, only running mozilla firefox and zonealarm security suite and windows obviously) This pc will sit quite comfortably at a CPU temperature of 64*c and a GPU temp 54*c. personally i wouldn't expect to see this high of temperature unless this machine had been heavily overclocked, but at stock speeds this is crazy. But there is a good side to my review... I must admit that this pc comes packed to the teeth with loads of extras. for one this ... Read review

Advantages: Sleek looks, miniture size
Disadvantages: You may need to upgrade for more speed

...word 'crash' doesn't come under apple vocabulary. -Macs look sexy. End of. -Your mates may get jealous. -There is a huge world of free software ONLY on Mac (freeware). Just take a look at apple downloads section to see what I mean. -You're part of a computer revolution. I run Tiger 10.4 on my mac, which is a superb OS although if you buy one now, you'll be running Leapord...the most advanced OS in the world! Spending the dough If you've ...
...8 processers in total. Apple do a lovely range of laptops for those who travel. The perfect companion for iPod users All software on Mac's are designed with the iPod in mind. Most have a 'send to iPod option' when you've made movies or other madia. Overall, this is a 5-star product...you really MUST buy a Mac mini and you'll be delighted! ... Read review