Desktops & Servers > IBM Desktops & Servers > Less than 100 GB > Intel Pentium 4 and earlier > PC

Advantages: Robust, Reliable, Give out EXcellent Performance
Disadvantages: Could be a Little Cheape

I have brought load of these IBM PC's for my work, the specifcations of these are; * Intel Pentium 4 3 GHz Processor * 40 GB ATA-100 Hard Disk drive; DVD-ROM drive * 512 MB of DDR SDRAM Memory * Microsoft Windows XP Professional They pretty good and robust you cant fault them as they are really reliable and they never seem to stop work or brake down. What is really good with these pc thats its really easy to get inside the pc as you need no ...
...screw on this case. All you to do is push catch in and then slide of the side panel its that easy. The expansion slots that it has are, 4 x memory - DIMM 184-PIN which good loads of slot to keep ungrading your memory, 3 x PCI - three-quarter-length to add any extrax graphics card of usb ports or etc, 1 x AGP 8x - three-quarter-length to add in prowerfull graphics card, 1 x processor - Socket 478. The interfaces that the pc can support are, 8 x ... Read review

Advantages: Slimline, Well Featured, Looks Good
Disadvantages: No Firewire, Not thought out properly

...the PC after all! IBM’s ThinkCentre range represents IBM’s mid-range business workstations, enough power and multimedia capabilities to run the top end office and productivity, whilst keeping costs down to make the systems as affordable as possible. A hidden but equally important part of the ThinkCentres resides inside the computer and installed on the hard drives, these discrete design decisions and software packages that are shipped with the machines. ...
...the contents of the IBM ThinkCentre are nothing short of an engineers dream. WHATS ON THE BOX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The system itself comes pre-loaded with Windows XP Professional, along with a raft of other interesting bits of software. However the real hidden power of the machine is on the CD’s that came with the system. You will find the latest versions of IBM Rescue and Restore and IBM Director, these two pieces of software will save hours of ... Read review

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: not too expensive, nice looking overall good pc
Disadvantages: a bit standard, not really exceptional

The ThinkCentre A50 8085 has lots of features and technology, including Intel Extreme Graphics 2 performance, six USB 2.0 ports, lots of security features, and powerful software tools to back up and protect your data. Overall i think this is an ok pc, providing you dont install too much memory on it. I wont go into complicated details like memory size, RAM, etc because most people dont tend to understand them to well. Basicly, underneath all the ...
...for an average person. It would be ideal for a student, like me. I bought this pc for about £500 new recently. But be warned! This, like many other computers, may seem great at first, but after a while it grinds to a halt while browsing the internet, freezes when playing games, and takes a lifetime to boot up. This of course is not all down to the computer itself, but how much software you install and how often you clean out temporary files, etc. ... Read review