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Top 100: Modern PCs or Museum Pieces?

Current models on our charts illustrate how far systems and devices have come in the past two decades.

By The Reviews Staff   

Your Guide to the Top 100

Each month we test a large number of PCs, printers, monitors, and other products. Only the best products land on the charts, which are refreshed monthly.

System configurations are shown as tested. The overall rating for each product is calculated on a 100-point scale and reflects results from our hands-on evaluations and performance tests. A 90-point score is exceptional, while one in the 70s is above average.

The PC WorldBench 4 score is a measure of how fast a PC can run a mix of common business applications as compared with our baseline machine, a Gateway Select 1200 with a 1.2-GHz Athlon processor, 128MB of PC133 SDRAM, and a 20GB hard drive. For example, a PC that scores 120 is 20 percent faster than the baseline system. The policies score is based on vendor support policies (not shown on charts). Click here for additional details on how we compile charts for the Top 100.

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