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Advantages: powerful CPU, easy to use, large screen.
Disadvantages: support from dell, it frezes after around 2 years. short warranty

The Dell Dimension 8300 is a very user-friendly computer. It is great for kids and adults! It comes with a 12" screen, microphone and external speakers. The range of features is vast: - Crystal clear pictures on the 12" screen. - Easy to setup. No need to hire a technician. -Cd-writer. -DVD playback. -Very sensitive roller ball mouse. -Flat screen monitor. -Looks good as a set because everything is black or silver. -4 USB ports (2 in the ...
...and headphones. (2 in the back for -surround sound speakers and 1 in the front for headphones. -3.5" floppy drive. -Built in Windows XP home. -Built Inintel Pentium 4. -300 MHz processor speed. -512 Mb Ram. I have this computer and have had to change my hardrive twice in its 4 year life. It is very easy to use. Kids find this computer very easy to manage and it has enough storage for all their games and my work. This computer is not the quickest ... Read review

Advantages: Affordable, flexible, good quality, nice looking.
Disadvantages: TV capture is naff, HD smaller than advertised

...4GB used up by built-in HP recovery software. It makes you wonder why it needs pre-installed recovery software but, with todays users, I guess it's explainable. The RAM in the PC is the PC3200 type and it cost me about £40 to upgrade to 700+ MB from Crucial Technologies. The graphics processor is alright - nothing special. Unsurprising as it's an Intel one, along with the processor. I had to upgrade to a 256MB ATI card using the PCI Express slot ...
...has a DVD+/- RW drive with a spare slot below. There are many connection possibilities including seven or so USB ports, firewire, S-Video & composite inputs, built in ethernet port. There are three PCI slots, one of which is free. The modem and TV capture card are installed here. The HD is connected to the motherboard by SATA, and there are four slots for RAM in total if you feel like upgrading. There is a free CD/DVD drive bay. When upgraded the ... 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: 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: 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