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Article: Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition: near-perfect budget system is as capable as it is attractive.(DESKTOPS)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
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- Computer Shopper
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- October 1, 2006
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AT $999 for a full configuration--complete with a 17-inch AOpen LCD and three-piece speakers--Velocity Micro's Vector GX Campus Edition offers strong performance compared with similarly priced pre-Core 2 Duo systems. It features the lowest-end processor in the Intel Core 2 Duo lineup: the 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo E6300. Further, the PC is backed by 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a 256MB nVidia GeForce 7600 GS 3D-graphics card. That's a lot of computer at a budget price. In fact, the only thing missing is a media-card reader, and that's available as a $25 add-on.
In our tests, the E6300 processor was a solid performer, competing favorably with its AMD ...