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Sony VAIO RB60G Pentium D 920 2.8GHz Desktop Computer

Monday, May 15th, 2006 | Desktop Computers, Reviews

With a price just over a thousand dollars and a host of high-end features, this Sony computer will do nicely for a home-entertainment system, and give enough features do well as a stand-alone desktop computer as well.

It comes with the new Pentium D 920 dual-core processor. It’s not the newest of the processors on the market, but it’s pretty new, and will provide enough processing power for anything you care to throw at it. The 900 series are the next generation in dual-core processors from Intel, but do not offer substantial gains over the 800 series. They do however, come at only a small price premium and consume less power.

The rest of the features are suitable for a computer at this level. The gigabyte of RAM is about what is expected and will keep it performing well, and allow use of both memory intensive programs and extensive multi-tasking.

For storage, the SATA hard drive offers enough space at 250GB. The inclusion of SATA also means that when upgrading you will have more choice open to you, to allow you to get either a much faster or bigger hard drive.

For the features on the outside, there are firewire, USB and card reader slots at the front, behind a little cover. At the back of the computer you will see a further firewire port, 4 USB ports, the audio ports, as well as slots for video cables and a modem port.

The included remote control allows you to control features of the audio/visual software just by using th remote control. This really boosts this system as a media center because not many people want to get up and use a mouse when sitting in the living room.

A built-in graphics solution will fair well with gaming, but that is not the intention of this computer. For a media center it gives everything you could really want. It lacks the sleek design of many of the very new media systems, but it’s price does save it a bit, allowing that media center experience, without breaking the bank.

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