G-Tech G-DRIVE COMBO 320 GB

Advantages: Cheap to buy and massively upgradeable.
Disadvantages: Not as compact as an iMac. Limited bus speed.

...on the front, and all of the sockets for connectivity are behind the machine. Specs: The CPU is a 300, 350, 400, or 450 MHz G3 chip with a 1MB L2 backside cache running at 2:1 (512K on 300 MHz model). RAM in second user machines is variable, but with the number of web and graphics companies moving to G5s it's not uncommon to see machines with 320MB on the market. It can be expanded to a gigabyte of RAM with four 250MB modules. Video is via a PCI ATI Rage 128 card with 16MB RAM. Hard-drives were a standard IDE 6GB drive. There are four PCI slots (one for video), to accept any number of simple upgrades. The machine has 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, 2 400 Mbps fire-wire port, 2 12 Mbps USB ports, and an ADB port for legacy keyboards and mice (from older beige machines). When buying a blue & white G3, you are better off with a Rev 2 motherboard. These had... Read review

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Advantages: Stylish, Very Quiet, Ease of Use
Disadvantages: None

...This stylish hard drive from Western Digital is one of the simplest electronic things I have bought in years. Just plug it into your USB port, and it does every thing for you, no installing drives off CD's, which on some things I have experienced, can be very time consuming. It is also surprisingly quiet and very stylish and with 320 Gb of space theres enough room for thousands of your pictures and music files. This also comes with a Fire Wire cable so transfer of your files is almost instantaneous. The cost is a little higher compared to some of its competitiors, I got mine for £99 from Amazon, but is well worthy of the price tag. I can promise, you wont be disappointed.... Read review

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Advantages: its an all in one
Disadvantages: can be noisy at times!

...I run a small business (hobby more like) making budget made-to-fit PC's. I don't believe that new PC buyers should be dazzled by gigabytes of power with awesome ammounts of Front Side Bus (FSB) and peripherals that most people dont use anyway like webcams or scanners. The packages that the likes of "PCplanet" put together can be ridiculously overpriced for what your getting. I mean, does anyone really need a 3.0gig cpu for printing out some wedding invitations? No of course not, but I bet they paid well over £600 for the PC and pretty much like a new car, a brand new PC will lose money overnight. PC parts have come a long long way in a very short space of time. I remember being dazzled by my first CD writer and the amazing speed of 12X burning! Wow. It was an Acer and I tell you something else, did I get my moneys worth out... Read review

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