Top 15 Home PCs

A new operating system and two new processors debut on the chart.

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Changes are afoot. This month sees the debut of a new operating system and two new processors--all heralding the future of our Top 15 Home PCs chart. Three new systems--Dell's Dimension XPS B1000r and Dimension 4100 PIII-800, and the Gateway Select Deluxe 1100--feature Microsoft's Windows Millennium Edition, the successor to Windows 98 Second Edition and, according to Microsoft, the last in the 9x dynasty of OSs. Windows Me packs built-in multimedia tools for managing digital images and sound, plus features to keep users from trashing key system files and settings inadvertently. (For more on the new OS, see "Windows Millennium Edition: All About Me.")

On the processor front, we saw the arrival of our first 1-GHz Pentium-III home system, the Dimension XPS B1000r, as well as our first 1.1-GHz Athlon system, the Select Deluxe 1100. The Gateway system is also the first home PC on the chart equipped with AMD's new, redesigned Athlon processor, which now has the L2 cache on the same chip as the CPU, yielding a slight speed advantage. Machines with the older Athlon chip have dropped off our chart this month as vendors move the new Athlon CPUs into their offerings.

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