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Top 20 Power Desktops

Pentium III-500s still rule the roost, but two new sub-$2000 PIII-450s hint at future trends in the Power category.

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As the industry makes way for upcoming Pentium III-550 PCs, prices on systems with slightly older CPUs are starting to drop. Several PIII-500 machines on the chart are $100 to $200 cheaper this month. New PIII-450 systems are coming in at bargain-basement prices. But these machines are about 7 percent slower than PIII-500s currently in the Top 20. Second-tier vendors continue to provide competition in the market for power PCs as they roll out cheaper PIII-500s. IDot.com, for example, debuted its speedy 500P3BX at number eight for just $2298. At the same time, a top-name company--Hewlett-Packard--offers the most affordable power PC on the chart: Its Vectra VLi8, at number 20, sells for $1834.

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