Advantages: Fast, well spec'd, nice price.
Disadvantages: No floppy disk drive.

...off, despite their good reputation. Evesham, however, offered a good compromise between price and power, and their machines looked good as well as receiving much praise from the computing press and media. For £1291 (inc. VAT) I got the following: 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 256 MB RAM 40 GB Hard Drive 16 MB ATI Graphics Card 8x8x24 DVD/CDRW Drive Built in Ethernet/USB/Firewire/Infra Red connecivity 14.1" TFT Screen AC97 Onboard Soundcard 56k v.92 Modem The lack of floppy drive may annoy some, but these are becoming increasingly rare as people use CDR/RW, USB keys, memory cards and the internet to transfer files. The purchase of the machine was relatively easy, the only glitch being the unavailablilty of the RAM upgrade I wanted (see my review of the Evesham store/service), but this was not to prove a major sticking point. Setup... Read review

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Advantages: Lightweight, Very Fast, Long Battery Life
Disadvantages: Wi-Fi is not too good

..., max expandable to 1GB 40GB or 60GB Hard Disk Supports S.M.A.R.T 13.3" TFT LCD 1024x768,16M Colours SigmaTel STAC 9767 Audio Controller Soundblaster™ Pro Compatible Stereo Speakers Integrated Microphone O2Micro OZ6933 CardBus Controller One type I/II slot NO ZV Support Internal Agere Ac97 56Kbps V.92 modem Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Internal Realtek RCT8139 10/100 Ethernet Controller Wake on LAN Support Texas Instrument IEEE1394 (FireWire) ALPS Touchpad External USB Floppy drive (optional) .....via Port Replicator 6 Cell,10.8v, 4000mAh Li-Ion Battery 3.75A/16V Mains Adapter Internal Device Bay) 8x / 24x / 8x / 4x Combo DVD & CDRW (Option) 2nd HDD (Option) 2nd 6 Cell,10.8v, 3400mAh Li-Ion Battery (Option) PC Card Slot (Option) Port Replicator Mains Input Serial Com Port Parallel Port VGA Port 2 x... Read review

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Advantages: had no problems with it, yet
Disadvantages: the tower is a bit tacky, can fall apart easy

...) Seagate, 20 Gigabyte, 5400 RPM Hard Disk Drive 17" A 726 Monitor, with 20 watt Monitor Mounted speakers 8 Speed DVD Drive 8x 8x 24x Cd Rewriter Drive 56Kbps Modem 4 USB ports (2 at the front) Windows Millenium Nice Green coulor coded tower and monitor plates. Included Software ************** Windows ME (Millenium Edition) Microsoft Word 2000 Microsoft Works Rally Championship 2000 Rayman 2 3D Activ Doc First Go ****** First thing after turning on my computer I saw the "Create Master CD" option on screen, this is Packard Bells way of saving money, and instead of providing you with a Windows ME Installation CD and Booklet, they make you create your own CD's using the CD writer. Only ingredients needed were 3 blank Cd-R's and 1 Hour of my time to create them. After all was done, the partition of the drive that had all the restore files... Read review

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