eMachines T6000

Like most of the company's systems, the T6000 makes trade-offs to hit a sweet price, but breaking with past practice, the CPU isn't one. In fact, with a fast AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB of DDR SDRAM, and a 160GB, 7,200-rpm drive, the T6000 turned in a 21.6 on Business Winstone 2004 and a 31 on Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004—productivity performance comparable with that of our recent Editors' Choice high-end box, the Velocity Micro ProMagix DX-W, which has twice the memory and a RAID 0 configuration. Unfortunately, the pep stops with productivity apps. FULL SPECS: MSI MS-6741 Motherboard, (VIA K8T800 Chipset) AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz 512MB DDR1, Max 2GB ATI Radeon 9600 128MB 160GB 7,200RPM HDD