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Advantages: Bread and butter, bog standard box, predictable and easy to deploy
Disadvantages: Not the lowest price for specification

...have come to expect from IBM of late; practical, quite nicely engineered, but again, the description of 'adequate' springs to mind. They have obviously taken a leaf or two from the competition, virtually all of the internal components can be exchanged without having to revert to tools - the IBM standard has been retained, anything marked blue implies that it's for removing (In Compaq, it's green) Depending on the model you buy, it comes with Windows ...
...In summary, well up to office tasks, but of limited interest to home users, but nonetheless well built, and will give many years faithful service. My previous comparisons between IBM kit in general and Volvo remain unchallenged, it's capable, even a little sporty on occasions, but above all safe. ... Read review

Advantages: Interchangeable processors
Disadvantages: Its a desktop

The IBM PC 300GL was origionaly made for the business sector. The higher spec machine similar to the 300GL was the 300PL which some had AGP graphics and LAN comunications support. This was the lower spec of the two machines but still there wasn't alot of difference. If you wanted to have better graphics or LAN support you could fit a PCI graphics card or an extra LAN card. Many motherboards of this spec had at least 4 PCI slots and for this machine ...
...look on the Intel / IBM website for a motherboard manual. Another thing was that missing AGP slot. I couldn't play the games i wanted. The better spec 300PL had the AGP slot and a better graphics card could boost my gaming performance. My machine came with Windows 98 but i soon upgraded to Windows XP and it could handle it very well especially fitted with a Pentium 3. Overall quite a good package. ... Read review

Advantages: Speed is of the essence!
Disadvantages: Design could be better.

Overall my experiance with this computer has taught me a few things about the way the computer works. First of all the speed and memory of this thing is excellent and keeps the computer running smoothly. Secondly is that flat screens are really flat! I didnt really like the price of this computer as it took a chunk of my savings with ease. Many people would say it was well worth it though. The design could have been more flamboyant but the designers ... Read review

Advantages: Great for the time
Disadvantages: Old now :(

...Love at first sight: The IBM Aptiva caught our eyes, with impressive specifications ( for the time ! ) and the new brilliant Windows Operating System Windows 98. My dad was familiar with IBM PCs and soon we were driving home with a shiny well grey PC in the back of our F reg Passat ( old for the time :P ). Connecting it up: Even now I still remember it well after getting the enormous boxes into the house we tore them open ! It was pretty tricky ...
...the logo screen which read IBM Aptiva and setting the clock the desktop loaded, the PC was ready to take orders from its masters. The PC ran fluidly and with ease capable though running the most demanding applications and the HD light would come on flash like mad and you would be treated to a blue error screen. Normal use was no problem my dad could get Office 2000 to run nicely and I could get Quake III Arena working. Zoom zoom Zoom: The IBM Aptiva ... Read review

Advantages: Sleek and Compact
Disadvantages: Poor Graphics Card

IBM have worked very hard to make this PC pleasing to the Eye, everything is hidden away. Not a cable in sight anywhere above desk. The system comes with Wireless Keyboard and mouse. It keeps the design as simple as possible with very few buttons on the front of the pc. The only drawback to the design is no Floppy drive, however IBM makes up for this by including a hiding the CDRW/DVD drive perfectly, the CD drive is hidden away in the stand, when ...
...not cope for high end games although extra memory may help with some games it will NOT make up for the lack of a decent graphics card. At the end of the day, IBM specialises in Business machines and this is defiantly a machine more suited to business use. ... Read review