comes in basic black (lots of other colors are available for $25 more), and includes a 2.0 GHz T5800 Core 2 Duo, Vista Home Premium, a 1280x800 glossy 15.4” display (a 1440x900 model costs only $50 more) and 3 GB of DDR2-667 RAM. The 320 GB 5,400 RPM SATA...

2 GB of 667-MHz DDR2 (both configurations included two SO-DIMM memory modules to take advantage of dual memory banks). Both included two 100 GB, 5,400 RPM SATA hard disks, where Toshiba used its own drives, and the HP unit included comparable Fujitsu models...

• -Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600

options for the HD video file format? The answer boils down to how much money you want to spend on hard drive space and how much content you want to have available without having to resort to archiving to DVD. OTA HD tuner cards generally output MPEG 2 in Transport...

Ideally, you’d match the 780G’s Radeon HD 3200-series core up to a comparable solution for the best balance between price and performance. The Radeon HD 3450 is perhaps the most closely configured board in AMD’s discrete lineup, so it’s the card we...

FSB 800) Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.8 GHz, 2 MB L2-Cache, FSB 800) Memory 2 x 1024 MB 667MHz DDR2 2 x 1024 MB 667MHz DDR2 Hard Drive Manufacturer & Model Toshiba MK1637GSX FUJITSU MHX2250BT Size 160 GB x 2 250 GB Performance (SATA II / 5400 rpm/ 8...

• -The Toshiba Qosmio F45-AV412

easily scoring well enough on all PCMark05 metrics to make a dent in general office work. Just be sure to install the 7,200 RPM SATA hard disks; our review model included 5,400 RPM models, which were far too slow to fit with the rest of this system’s accoutrement....

DVD burner Plextor PX-716-SA SATA DVD burner/player (retail $121) Motherboard Asus M2A-VM HDMI (retail: $81) Hard Drive Samsung Spinpoint SP2004C, 200 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA/300 (retail: $55) Graphics Built-in AMD/ATI Radeon X1250 chipset (no...

MB DDR3 256 MB DDR2 Memory clock 396 MHz / 252 MHz / 135 MHz 378 MHz / 252 MHz / 135 MHz System BIOS AMI 205 01/18/06 HP 68YAFVer.F.01 CPU Intel Core Duo T2400 (1.83 GHz, 2 MB L2-Cache) Intel Core Duo T2600 (2.16 GHz, 2 MB L2-Cache) Northbridge...