You also get Microsoft Office 97, Norton Antivirus and the notorious Xstore Pro disk caching software. The peripherals are a good-quality Trust keyboard and a standard Microsoft mouse. As with all Best Price systems, you also get a manual for every component, which is a boon for those who know what they're doing. However, for the novice user, we would have liked to have seen a few notes on setting the PC up for the first time. There's also 60 days of freephone support on the software packages.
Performance is respectable.
Had this been better, the Winstone 99 score would probably have been faster. This is a good business system on many counts, including performance. However, it fails to sparkle when all is said and done. For instance, at this price point we're starting to see 19in monitors and higher-speed Athlon processors. All rights reserved.