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acer Aspire IE-3218

The Aspire IE-3218 is designed for home users who desire powerful performance with rich multimedia features, TFT Display all at an amazing price. Now, thats really the perfect choice for a complete home computer!

Specifications
Processor = Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2180
(2.0 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB)
Operating System = Linpus Linux
Chipset = Intel® 945 GC
Memory = 1 GB 667MHz RAM - upgradable to 2 GB
Graphics = Intel® GMA 950
Slots & Expandability = 3 * PCI (32-bit), 1 * PCI-E (X16)
Audio = Realtek 7.1 Channel Audio Support
LAN Connectivity = 10/100 LAN
Optical Disk Drive = DVD Writer with Labelflash Technology
I/O Ports = 8 * USB 2.0 port (4 * Top-Front, 4 * Rear)2 * PS/2 port
Ethernet (RJ-45) port
Headphone and microphone jacks
Line-in and line-out jacks
VGA port
1 * Parallel port
1 * Serial port
Hard Disk Drive = 320 GB SATA HDD @ 7200 RPM
Chassis = Elegant Silver Black Housing with Top USB and Audio I/O and Blue-LED
Display = 19 WTFT
Mouse = Optical Mouse
Keyboard = Multimedia Keyboard with Volume Knob
Speakers = Creative Stereo Speakers
Warranty = 1 Year Onsite in 79 Locations in India, In other locations -
1 Year Return-To-Bench3
Acer Software Availability = All New Single DVD Education Pack (Physics Funda,
Mathemagica, Crazy Chemistry, Biology Bingo,
Jive with Geography & Easy English, Groovy Games)

Polywell Poly X4800-EXTREME

Polywell certainly named this power desktop computer correctly. Its 3.2-GHz Core 2 X9770 CPU is Intel's current state-of-the-art Extreme (overclockable) chip, which means that this is an extremely fast desktop. At $4799 (as of August 8, 2008), it's also extremely expensive. Then again, no one ever said state-of-the-art would be cheap; the X9770 CPU alone costs nearly $1500; the equally fresh-from-the-mint MSI nVidia GeForce GTX280 graphics card, about $500; and the 4GB of DDR3 1600 memory goes for nearly as much. But the steep cash outlay that's called for buys you a knock-your-socks-off WorldBench 6 score of 141, as well as a gaming experience of 207 to 266 frames per second. Extremely fast indeed.

Part of the X4800-Extreme's excellent performance is due to a hard-drive setup we're beginning to see often on the power chart--pairs of 10,000-rpm, 300GB Western Digital WD3000GLFS VelociRaptor hard drives in a RAID 0 configuration. Not only are these 2.5-inch models mounted on 3.5-inch adapter sleds (as Western Digital calls them), they're energy-efficient. The sleds function as giant heat sinks that work so well that the drives are nearly cool to the touch even when in heavy use.