Fujitsu Siemens SCALEO M - P4 2.66 GHz

Advantages: intel pentium 4 3.4 GHz, ATI graphic card, read and write DVD's and CD's, 6 USB sockets
Disadvantages: in my opinion there aren't any.

...Fujitsu Siemens SCALEO P: This computer looks very modern and stylish. It is very fast and reliable computer it great for home uses also its compatible with the new operating system windows vista. it has a big hard drive 232GB which can store a lot of pictures, videos, music, movies etc... the graphic card is made by a very popular company ATI. the processor is also made by a very popular company intel, this processor is very powerful one intel pentium 4 3.4 GHz. it has a lot of usb sockets two at the front and four at the back it also has a card reader that can read SD, MS, CF/MD, SM, and MMC which is very useful if you have a digital camera. this computer can read and write DVD's and CD's. Software that came with it: nero express 6 norton internet security AOL internet CD orange internet CD windows xp home edition recovery... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant easy to use and you do get the windows xp disk
Disadvantages: none really

...and within our budget. We purchased 2 FS P4 computers with 80 GB drives 2.53 CPU's and ATI graphic cards for £998 all in but without any other warranty. That was in 2003. I am now using this same FS P4 computer to write this reveiw. The scaleo in that time has been brilliant and proved 100% reliable. The back-up disks you get with FS computers (Still to this day) are the only company as far I know who still give the Windows XP disk and a driver disk......None of this partition stuff on the hard drive. which is good and when you think about it if you have windows on the hard drive as a partition and the drive goes(even when new and it does happen) you are in a world of hurt. Fujitsu computers for us have been brilliant and as has been said already, when the warranty is up, you can upgrade them easy with plenty of room and they use... Read review

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Advantages: ease of use, all round good starter system,
Disadvantages: sometimes can be a bit slow if multitasking, front lights fail over time.

...at night but compared to my old win 98 system is really quiet, it is also a p4 3.6ghz which i beleive even 3 years later is still quite a good spec for general use. One drawback was that when playing big games or multitasking with music or video editors the system can slow right down. there are many ports on the back as well however soundcard inputs are very sensitive.... Read review

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