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Advantages: Go for small office or low end user needs
Disadvantages: Hard to get parts not Upgrade friendly

...too much from the little Patriot Booksize MII300. Why? Well lets look at the specifications as sold by PC World, Dixons and Currys.  Cyrix MII-300 Processor  32 MB SDRAM Memory  4.3 GB Samsung Hard Dive  52 Speed CDRom  ATI Trident Blade 3D Graphics with 4Mb Shared Memory  CMI 8738 PCI Onboard Sound  56k Onboard AMR Modem  Davicom 9102 Onboard Network Interface Card  ...
...seems to have everything. But it isn’t an all singing all dancing wonder. If gaming is your scene this machine isn’t for you. I don’t even recommend it for first time users. It is ideal if you want to build a little network and practice being a network manager. And it is ideal if you just want to connect to the net every now and then or use a word processor occasionally. It is ideal for building a small network cheaply in a school ... Read review

Advantages: affordable machine that runs Quake 3 with no probs.
Disadvantages: Not the latest anymore!

...look at Comet and their Patriot (or similar) range. Note: wherever you buy, be very specific about how good you want the sound and graphics to be. With soaring chip speeds and bulging superfast ram in most machines, sound and graphics cards are crucial to good performance. ... Read review

Advantages: speed ,power,Design
Disadvantages: value for money

...were released. As soon as Apple released the updated Mac Pro in January, I picked one up. After using the iMac for so long, the Mac Pro was like a breath of fresh air. This machine is crazy fast. I loaded 10 GB of RAM into it and can pretty much have all my design apps open (mainly CS3) as well as run Parallels at the same time. I could never do this with the iMac. Overall, I'd recommend the Mac Pro to design professionals looking to run lots of ...
...You'll have to deal with the strange rebooting problem I mentioned above but I don't think it's a deal breaker. I've gotten around this by either shutting my machine down when I'm gone for long periods of time or setting the sleep cycle to never. It's not a great solution (I can't save electricity this way) but I think it's worth it for the power of this machine. ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant screen, fast, runs Windows too
Disadvantages: Virtually none, but not good for DIY upgrades.

Introduction I was walking through some wood on the Scottish Borders one day when we came across a cottage where we saw a Cavalier King Charles sitting on a chair in the sun, and a gentleman working on a computer. We got chatting about the dog (as we also have a Cavalier) and the conversation inevitable turn the his computer which happened to be an iMac 2.4GHz, 24" Core 2 Duo model being used for photography and graphics. The gentleman showed me ...
...me that I should give up my Windows PC and to switch to MAC for my main uses of photo and video. If I was really stuck, I was told that Mac could run any Windows programmes I needed on it. My main intention was to leave the Windows PC for day to day use, and use the MAC PC for hobbies only - more of that later. However, a few weeks later, after looking at reviews and seeing the machine again, I took the plunge and bought the iMac - a decision I ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of storage great upgrade capacity.
Disadvantages: requires a professional to install correctly

HP ML350 are very very excellent servers. these machines are very reliable and very fast, and widely used in many businesses across the UK they tend to run best with Windows SBS loaded as the operating system. with 5 hard drive bays you can have more than enough storage space for your company use. so you could have a maximum storage capacity of 5TB if you required it. Dual intel Xeon capability. Maximum RAM of 32GB if the G5 version of the ML350 ...
...a redundant Power supply into the server, it is a very good idea to purchase a redundant Power supply, this will keep your seerver Powered from a different wall socket if you primary Power supply should fail. also with a onboard RAID controller allowing the user to setup redundancy on there data which comes in handy if the worst was to happen. Problems with these server are very RARE. absolute brilliant value for money and very Reliable, perfedt ... Read review