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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: 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: 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: Looks extremely sexy, quick and reliable with the right protection
Disadvantages: Comes with very little "worth having" software

My father bought this computer as a family computer. Since buying it we have run into a few problems with it. The screen developed a frozen pixle. (a pixle that only appears in one colour). Also the computer came with no anti adware/anti spyware software what so ever. After only a few months of having it, the machine had to be formatted(everything cleared off the hardrive) this caused me and my brother to loose work and we had to reload all of our ...
...can see a small flap at the bottom of the tower, when this is folded down there are lots and lots of different card slots, very useful when your family has 3 or four digital cameras. This is a great computer although with your money you are paying a lot for the fact its Sony. Don't make the same mistake as me, make sure that before you do anything on it, get as much anti spyware and anti adware on there as you can. I would recommend ad-aware and ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use, Great offers available, it doesn't gather dust on a shelf?!
Disadvantages: None

I've had my Dell Dimension Desktop set up for a number of years now and i'm amazed at how resilient it can be to the demands of high internet activity I have to complete due to working from home alot. The professional nature of the dell call centre has been second to none especially when setting the pc up and getting it connected to broadband which did prove a little stressfull at first! When I brought the Pc it was a wonderous piece of kit and ... Read review