Desktops Reviews

Dell Dimension 8200 (2.8GHz Pentium 4) review

Review Dell's flagship Dimension delivers excellent performance and is a good choice if you want a gaming platform, an entertainment hub or just a well-built and very fast PC.

Poweroid 8001 review

Review If you’re a power user and you want a solidly-built and expandable PC, this very fast system should be on your shortlist.

Keep your PC quiet

Tech Guide Your PC's cooling system can be distractingly noisy -- especially if you work at home, away from the background hum of the office. Here's how to minimise the problem.

Dell OptiPlex GX260 review

Review The OptiPlex GX260 delivers good performance, excellent manageability and some expandability for an attractive price -- a combination that should prove popular with businesses.

Sony VAIO PCV-RX301 review

Review The RX301 is a surprisingly affordable Sony desktop that can handle relatively undemanding multimedia content creation tasks.

Dell Dimension 8200 (2.4GHz P4 with 533MHz FSB) review

Review This is a very fast PC with excellent 3D graphics, but serious power users and bargain hunters would be advised to wait for forthcoming systems with different motherboard chipsets.

Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic S2 review

Review The compact and ergonomic Scenic S2 provides all the connections an office PC needs, while Thermal Management allows it to be configured for quiet operation or maximum performance as required.

Mesh Matrix XP 2100+PPC review

Review Fast and reasonably priced, this Athlon XP 2100+-powered system is a good choice for power users.

Sony VAIO PCV-LX2 review

Review Sony has upgraded the internals of its eye-catching desktop PC to bring them up to date, and dropped the price. Although it's still not an absolute bargain, this is an affordable and attractive system.

Sony VAIO PCV-RX203 review

Review Sony's PCV-RX203 delivers the performance and features required for video, audio and stills editing. It looks good enough to grace a design studio too.

Sony VAIO PCV-RX1 review

Review If appearances and capabilities are more important to you than the last few drops of performance, the VAIO PCV-RX1 is a desktop PC you should consider.

Toshiba Equium 8100D review

Review The Equium 8100D is a good-value workhorse for running mainstream productivity applications, but is otherwise unremarkable.

Apple iMac 800MHz PowerPC G4 review

Review The iMac is dead; long live the iMac. After ringing up reported sales of 6 million units, Apple has retired its famous teardrop-shaped consumer computer and replaced it with a visually striking device that has to be seen to be appreciated. The revised model's 15in. LCD screen hangs suspended by a stainless-steel articulated arm above a dome-shaped white base that looks like it was designed for a table lamp.

Dell Dimension 4400 review

Review If you need a little extra computing power, this 2.2GHz Pentium 4 system can certainly provide it -- but there's plenty of attractively priced competition.

Apple Power Macintosh G4 review

Review The G4s are the fastest Macintoshes Apple has yet built. The 867MHz model offers good performance for a decent price, with a DVD-R/CD-RW SuperDrive in case you want to create your own DVDs.