Vendor System Name Price (ex. VAT) Processor RAM (MB) Harddisk (GB) Comments
Acer Veriton 935 P4 820 Dual Core 2.8GHZ 512 80 No distributor indicated in article and no prices available on Acer website. The few distributors I tried out were doa.

 Power 460 AMD Sempron 3000+ 512 80
Apple Power Mac G5 2172 Dual Core 2.3 GHZ PowerPC
512
250
Monitor is not included in price

iMac G5 1156 1.9GHZ PowerPC G5
512
160

Dell Optiplex GX520 1134 P4 3.0GHZ
1024
80
The Dell price for this configuration is now €969

Optiplex 170L 414 Intel Celeron 2.4 GHZ
256
40
256MB of memory will barely boot the operating system. The system is now €479
Fujitsu Siemens HP Celsius W340 Workstation 899 P4 630 HT 3.0 GHZ
512
80
No distributor indicated in article and no prices available on the website.

HP Scenic Edition X102 569 P4 515 2.93 GHZ
512
80

HP dc7600 759 P4 630 3.0GHZ
512
80
No weblinks to distributors and no prices on the website.

dx5150 579 AMD Athlon 64
512
80
Comparable in performance to high end model IMHO
Lenovo ThinkCentre A52 Tower VPC75UK 1010 P4 3.2GHZ
???
160
No monitor included in price, no details on amount of memory

ThinkCentre E50 440 P4 915GV
256
80
No monitor included in price, only a seriously deranged person would run any windows operating system on 256MB
IQon MMBP Business PC2 585 P4 3.0GHZ
1024
80
Website doesn't render properly in FireFox. No weblinks to resellers. No prices on website. No specs on website. What is this website for?

MMBP Business PC1 409 Intel Celeron D330
512
80

Sony Vaio RC102 1579 Intel D820 2.8 GHZ
1024
320
More of a media centre than a business PC.
Vendor Comparion Table (Sunday Business Post 8th Jan 2006)