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Advantages: Small, great heatsink!, Firewire built it!
Disadvantages: The size limits the lack of drive space

I have very little space for a PC in my study area (i.e. hole under the stairs!) and I hate clutter anyway so I wanted a PC I could stick in a cupbaord but still leave space for all my other compurter perifferals. This fitted the bill. It is the easy self build PC really as the it comes as a case with the mother board fitted (the hard part of a self build really I guess). I needed a CD/ DVD drive, a hard drive, processor and some RAM. This takes ...
...are different versions for other processors). I put a 3G P4 in mine and was glad to see it does support the hyper threading technology, which allows for faster multitasking. Wether it does 2 tasks at once or does some fancy concurrent tasking management I'm not sure, but it processes things very fast from my point of view! When putting it together I was amazed by the heatsink cooling system, it is genius and necessary for something this small. It ... Read review

Advantages: Fairly Fast, Stable System
Disadvantages: DVD Drive Fault

Product Description Fujitsu Siemens SCALEO 600ix - P4 2.6 GHz Type PC Form Factor Mid tower Dimensions (WxDxH) 18 cm x 49.8 cm x 43.2 cm Weight 13 kg Processor 1 x Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz Cache Memory 512 KB L2 Cache Cache Per Processor 512 KB RAM 512 MB (installed) / 2 GB (max) - DDR SDRAM Storage Controller IDE ( DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra) ) Floppy Drive 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy Hard Drive 1 x 120 GB - standard - DMA/ATA-100 (Ultra) Optical Storage 1 x DVD±RW ...
...purchsing this machine I contacted Fujitsu -Seimens and they happily and Rapidly repaired this for me. This runs simple tasks to complex games well. OS supplied (Windows XP) is a user friendly and highly customizeable OS with most compaability issues that arrose from is not being an MS-DOS based operating system is solved by running it in compatibility mode (basically programs not compatible with windows XP can still often be run in the compatibility ... Read review

Advantages: good dvd reader/writer and takes flash memory sticks
Disadvantages: cooling system makes a sound when turning on or using alot of cpu

I bought this computer a year ago and had no problems with it since, the only thing you may need to consider is upgrading the cooling fan on the CPU if you hear a odd cooling sound when you turn the computer on. Other than that the computer is a perfect machine to use with any type of applications! I use the computer every day for private use and havent had a problem since i bought it. I would recomened this computer for home and business uses or ...
...The computer comes with dvd burning software so dont go buying software when you purchase this computer, you can even find hidden programs if you go searching in the hard-drive. I found a program that enables you to watch movies so that tells you something. This is a great computer i recommend it to people who can afford computers in this price range! ... Read review

Advantages: Looks fantastic and is very quiet
Disadvantages: speakers supplied aren't great

We purchased our Sony Vaio PCV- RX203 about 2 and a half years ago, but purchased a top of the range one. As a result it had much the same spec as the ones on sale now, eg, DVD-RW, 512MB RAM, 120GB hard disk, pentium 4 2GHz, and we paid about £1200 for it. The reason I am choosing to review it now is because I felt it would be useful to those of you out there looking to buy a PC, to know how reliable this PC has been. I am an IT consultant by trade, ...
...disks and other components fail on PC's supplied by other large brand names! The only thing to break on our PC, in 2 and a half years, is the speakers that were supplied with it, and as our PC gets used for at least 6 hours a day, gets software and hardware beta tested on it, and has been moved house in a van with no suspension, that's not bad going! The machine itself is very nice to look at, and runs very quietly compared to similar machines by ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, Powerful, Expandable, Well Built
Disadvantages: Costly,

...Sony. As with most Sony products, what you are paying for is the brand. On this occasion I would suggest that it is almost worth it because of the build quality. Sony's support system is also very good and I definately would consider buying from them again (funds permitting). The system has served me well over the last few months and I do think others would feel the same. ... Read review