IBM Aptiva 63G - PIII 500 MHz

Advantages: Reliable
Disadvantages: Pricey

...I was lucky enough to ckoose an Aptiva as my home PC around four years ago. I say lucky because I had considered various other machines, but went for the Aptiva in the end. While not the cheapest, or even the highest spec machine that I had to choose from, I was finally convinced by the fact that it was an IBM machine. IBM are a massive company, and working in the computer industry I know the vast amounts of money that they spend on research and development. This has been money well spent when it comes to the Aptiva series. In my workplace I have had three new machines since I bought the Aptiva for home use. The Aptiva has outshone all three in terms of reliability. Because the machine is now four years old I have had to make a few small upgrades. I have added more memory and a bigger hard drive. I also upgraded the processor recently... Read review

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Advantages: Great for the time
Disadvantages: Old now :(

...dad could get Office 2000 to run nicely and I could get Quake III Arena working. Zoom zoom Zoom: The IBM Aptiva was a very good PC with the latest processor from AMD in it named the AMD K6 2 which had a mind-blowing 400 MHZ of CPU speed but was equivalent to a 500MHZ Intel Chip. The processor was propped up by a 100MHZ FSB ( Bus ) which gave our lovely IBM PC enough speed to outclass all its rivals. Storing the dirt: The IBM PC was truly top of its class and was fitted with a whopping huge 8GB ( 8000MB ) hard drive, most PCs back then were fitted with a 4-6GB hard disk so there was plenty of space for everything my games and my dads office software. It Can Think Too: The PC had excellent an memory chip, 64 whole MB of PC 100 Ram, the latest and greatest technology had to offer, some PCs where preloaded with an enormous 128 MB... Read review

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Advantages: VFM, Build Quality, IBM!!
Disadvantages: Lack of expansion potential

...This is a tricky one. I am an IT professional, but I bought a machine which most of my peers would not have touched. And I suppose only now I am getting frustrated. I bought the Aptiva from Comet for £999 last Christmas. PIII 500, DVD and 17" monitor was the criteria I set. It only had 64MB RAM, but that was ok for beginners. I bought it from Comet for the interest free credit. I still consider it a good deal. There was not much software with the machine - Lotus Smartsuite (which I would not use nowadays - our office uses MS Office, and it is so much easier to use the same). A few games were thrown in by Comet though. I primarily wanted the machine for VB programming at home. And the machine was fine. Fast, lots of hard disk space, decent monitor. The whole package is very nice. Colour coded cables and ports. Nice... Read review

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