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Top 20 Budget Desktops

Speedy new Celeron-366 PCs from Gateway, IDot.com, and Hewlett-Packard keep pace with the Pentium II-400 systems, but for hundreds of dollars less.

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Intel steals market share from itself as PCs based on high-end Celeron chips emerge as an excellent choice for budget-system shoppers, pushing past some PCs based on midrange Pentium IIs. This month, three of the four new chart-makers use the Celeron-366, and small wonder. On average, the Celeron-366 PCs run only 9 percent slower than PII-400­based PCs, yet the average price--$1297--is 21 percent below that of the PII-400s. Despite Intel's plethora of processors, AMD-based PCs hang in there. Three of the systems on the budget chart use an AMD-K6 processor, including CyberMax's Enthusiast KII-400R, an excellent multimedia PC that almost nabbed a Best Buy.

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