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Advantages: Amazing Spec for Price
Disadvantages: not the best looker

I have know that IBM have been a good reliable make for a while now, but this PC is amazing. The spec that you get for the money is good and in general the PC feels fast, amazing for your day to day tasks, such as word processing and basic picture editing. I personnally use it for programming, and makes light work with VB. With any IBM product this feels study and doesnt look like its going to break with time. I love the monitor. The only downside ... Read review

Advantages: Ease of use and ease of initial setup
Disadvantages: could maybe be better with a real pentium in it - but I don't really know without changing it

...the purchase - Comet or IBM - I did have to have my printer replaced a Xerox xj6 with a cannon BJC2100 but that could be another op somewhere else sometime. The machine I bought has a Pentium 3 lookalike installed as standard and is fast enough for everthing I do which is mainly word processing and internet use with some paint and draw applications mainly design of proformas for work use. ... 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: 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: old. very cheap, great as utility boxes
Disadvantages: not the most available

~~~~~~Intro~~~~~~ This is probably going to be my first whacky review. You also might be a bit surprised that I am reviewing such an old product too. No, I'm not going to say that this is a must have buy for all your computing needs, but recently several of these boxes came my way for only two hundred pounds and I decided to share some of my experiences and say why these machines are actually very interesting. The focus of this review is going ...
...This is an old and crummy PC right? Yes, but it is an old crummy PC that can run good Linux server based OSes and do a whole host of tasks. You could have one dedicated server running everything, or you could use independent ones - lots of these little boxes. Since schools and other insitutions have these lying around, you can get them very cheaply. And the specs are certainly good enough to do these tasks: a) Become a network firewall to protect ... Read review