MSI’s Wind Top AE2010 ($650, as of December 8, 2009) is one of our favorite new budget all-in-one PCs. It has a 20-inch single-touch display, Windows 7, and 4GB of memory; it ditches the Atom CPU for a 1.5GHz Athlon X2 Dual-Core 3250e processor; and it is among the best-performing budget all-in-one…
Acer’s Aspire Z5610 is kind of like a budget version of the Gateway One ZX6810-01 . Both have 23-inch, 1080p-capable multitouch displays and top-notch general performance, but the $900 Acer (price as of December 8, 2009) lacks the $1400 Gateway’s gaming grunt–as well as extras like a TV tuner and a…
The Vizio VT420M ($1000 as of 12/9/09) is one of Vizio?s more expensive 42-inch, 1080p, 120Hz LCD HDTVs , but it’s still a moderately priced set for its class and feature set. In most respects it’s a better deal than the similarly priced Vizio SV420M , since it has superior audio, a headphone jack,…
Lenovo’s C300 may have more storage than any similarly priced all-in-one PC we’ve seen, but the system (which costs $549, as of December 8, 2009) makes a number of sacrifices that almost counterbalance its good general performance and price.
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