alaTest USA - Product Tests & Reviews

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Number of Reviews collected

in Desktops

56

Total

3434

Source country

AU

Australia

Language: English

Source rating scale

1
6

Average source rating

74

Highest rating

100

Lowest rating

50

Desktops

HP Compaq Thin Client T5735

HP Compaq t5735 Thin Client

By Dave Mitchell

A solidly built thin client with a good hardware specification and features, including a classy remote management act

For these functions HP includes a complimentary copy of the Altiris Deployment Solution (ADS), which supports all t5000 series thin clients and HP's blade workstation clients. Each HP thin client receives a perpetual licence when they connect to the ...

February, 2009

Rating

67

no alaScore

1 reviews

Dell PowerEdge T100

Dell PowerEdge T100

By Dave Mitchell

Award: Recommended!

The T100 is a compact pedestal server and its combination of value and features makes it well worth considering

February, 2009

Rating

83

alaSCORE 88

2 reviews

HP Compaq DC7900

HP Compaq dc7900 Small Form Factor PC

By Sasha Muller

Award: Recommended!

HP's latest PC blends power, useful business features and a keen eye for detail

February, 2009

Rating

83

alaSCORE 93

19 reviews

Dell Studio Hybrid

Small, funky and fast, the studio hybrid is the pick of the small PCs. You've read our first impressions, now see our full review of the Dell Studio Hybrid.

The advantage to the faster components is performance: where the Eee Box 202 scored a lowly 0.39 in the PC Authority benchmarks, the Studio Hybrid has more than enough power to run Photoshop with its much more impressive 1.13

October, 2008

Rating

67

alaSCORE 94

192 reviews

ASUS Eee Box B202 / B204 / B206

Eee Box 202

By Dave Stephenson

Lacks in power, but terrific hardware design makes this an intriguing take on the Eee brand.

It's surprisingly well-featured, too. A chief complaint of other small PCs such as the Mac mini was that it was next to impossible to add peripherals: install a mouse and keyboard and you'd already run out of USB ports. The Eee Box has two USB ports ...

September, 2008

Rating

67

alaSCORE 97

267 reviews

Hyrican Informationssysteme AG_392784 Hyrican PCK02714 C - Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 3GB/750GB DVD±LS GF8600GT VHP

AMD Phenom X4

By David Fearon

A smartly engineered processor, but for today's applications it's lacking in bang per buck.

Even if you need a multicore system, the Phenom doesn't distinguish itself. Intel's quad-core parts may be less elegantly engineered, but they compensate with larger data caches and faster clock speeds. The Core 2 Quad Q6600 outran the Phenom 9600 by ...

July, 2008

No rating

alaSCORE 88

215 reviews

HP DC7800

HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra slim

By Dave Stephenson

Award: Recommended!

Attractively small and aggressively priced, the Ultra Slim is an interesting proposition for businesses

The Ultra Slim's tiny dimensions are down to its nearly exclusive use of laptop components. The 1GB of RAM is installed on a single SODIMM and the hard disk is a 2.5in model. Even the optical drive is the kind of spring-loaded tray design normally ...

March, 2008

Rating

83

alaSCORE 87

67 reviews

Acer Veriton L460

Acer Veriton L460

By Nick Ross

Award: Recommended!

A retrograde step from its predecessor, but a super low price makes this dinky PC very desirable

Powering the system is one of Intel's new low-power 1.8GHz Pentium E2160 dual core CPUs. It's joined by 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard disk. The L460 scored 0.60 in our benchmarks, which might leave hard core encoders and serious photography buffs ...

March, 2008

Rating

83

alaSCORE 88

11 reviews

Asus Nova P20

Asus Nova P20

By Matthew Sparkes

A teaser of a great workhorse PC, we just hope Asus can get the price down on release.

Part of the Nova's appeal is its tiny footprint when standing vertically, but it's also designed to be at home when used horizontally. Because of this dual design, the case isn't symmetrical: on one side a speaker grille consumes the top third of the ...

March, 2008

Rating

67

alaSCORE 82

3 reviews

Acer Aspire M5630

Acer Aspire M5630

By Nick Ross

Another big name brand PC gets a cutting-edge, all-format, high-def optical drive capable of playing Blu-ray and HD DVD.

But it's tricky to work out who this PC is aimed at. HD movies really need 50in+ TVs to be fully appreciated. Investing in a 22in-monitor based PC for your high-def entertainment seems wrong. It's a spec we'd expect on a media centre PC, not a desk ...

January, 2008

Rating

67

alaSCORE 84

18 reviews

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