The Mesh Matrix is one of those PCs built for users who are going to push their machines hard. The emphasis is on speed, so the spec is full of big numbers, kicking off with the ...

£800 can now buy you a very respectable general purpose home and office PC. This HomePro system from Viglen has a lot going for it, though out and out performance isn't top of the list. The ...

Tiny's Entertainment Performance system offers a lot for not too great an outlay. The system is built around an 800MHz Pentium III processor with 128MB of fast 133MHz memory and a substantial 28.6GB hard drive. In ...

One thing you notice about machines in this price band is the common design in so many of them. Viglen's is another machine based around a MicroATX system board using an Intel 810 chipset. This means ...

Simply has made some moves to distinguish its machine from the mainstream of PCs in this price bracket. It starts with a 10-speed DVD-ROM drive, rather than a CD, and includes an LS120 Superdisk in place ...

NEC has been selling PCs direct for a couple of years now and its buying power has a big effect on the value it can build into its systems. The most obvious sign of this on ...

Hi-Grade has put together a PC with a bit more performance potential than some others here. It has a Celeron processor running at a comparatively quick 600MHz as its power source and backs it up with ...

Carrera has spent the budget on this machine in the places where it counts. So, for instance, there's a 17-inch Hansol monitor attached to it, which gives a sharp, well-defined picture on its near-flat face. The ...

This machine is an odd mix of good and not quite so good. It starts well, with a midi tower case which has plenty of room for expansion and contains a Pentium III 550, which gives ...

Imagine a compact, all-in-one desktop system, democratically priced and with the accent on ease of use and general convenience; a computer for the millennium, a computer for anyone to use. You could be forgiven for thinking ...

You've got to hand it to Mesh - they know how to package a PC. I don't just mean sturdy boxes, I mean the little touches, like including an A2-sized leaflet on exactly how to set ...

Now this is a machine with a lot of power under the bonnet. It's based on a rather nippy 800Mhz AMD Athlon chip (not that you'd have guessed that from the name), and this is backed ...

Evesham.com (formerly Evesham Micros) is a heavy supporter of AMD and its Athlon range of processors and the chip is now cheap enough to be built into some quite inexpensive PCs. The cunning name of the ...

Unless we're completely missing the point, and we're quite sure that we're not, the Toshiba Equium 2000 is possibly the most pointless desktop PC we've ever seen. To get straight to the point (or lack of ...

NEC Direct is just what it says, the direct sales arm of the giant NEC corporation, owner of NEC Packard Bell, among others. This neat little midi tower system shows what you can do as a ...

If you still can't get enough speed out of your PC, or want to be the first on your street with a 1GHz machine, you need look no further than Kryotech's Super-G. This is a PC ...

You'll have heard the hype, read the previews, seen the television adverts and probably got totally fed up with the entire business. Pentium III, I mean, Intel's latest evolution of its chunky processor range. You've heard ...

Had enough of that clunky great grey box sitting on your desktop? Want to replace it with something smaller, svelter and infinitely more aesthetically interesting? Judging by the success of the Apple iMac, so do lots ...

Of all the computer manufacturers in the world, none is more enigmatic than Apple. From success in the mid-1980s to near death in the mid-1990s, no other company could hope to garner such fanatical support and ...

Ho-hum. Another month, another new processor from Intel. The chip company seems to be churning out newer, faster CPUs at a ridiculous rate of knots, but as long as there are buyers interested, who can blame ...