Knocking the previous winners into fifth place and below, all four machines settled at the top of the chart. The 1GHz Athlon processor coupled with 128MB of RAM produced an impressive WorldBench 2000 score of 171, making it the fastest in the category and placing it on par with some of the Power PC machines. The fact that this level of performance can be found in the Budget category just goes to show how quickly technology advances. There's plenty of storage in the form of a 30GB hard drive from IBM, so you shouldn't run out of space too quickly. To facilitate backup, there's a Teac CD-RW, allowing you to archive and transport files from one PC to another.
Multimedia is well catered for, making the machine a good all-rounder.
Gamers shouldn't be disappointed by the provision of a Chaintech 64MB GeForce2 graphics card. Although the current generation of games won't really push this card to its limits, it will certainly set you up for the future. If you fancy watching some TV on your PC, there's also a Brooktree TV card thrown in for good measure. This card allows you to display television pictures and Teletext on your computer, and doubles as a video capture device for piecing together those all-important home movies. Display duties are taken care of by a CTX PR705F 17in monitor.