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Athlon XP 1800+: The Next Generation

Desktops with the powerful new Athlon processor take strong positions on this month's charts.

By Edited by Richard Baguley   

For this month's reviews of systems and peripherals, click the links below.

The first systems using speedy new Athlon XP 1800+ processors (which actually run at 1533 MHz) appear high on the power section of the Top 15 Office PCs chart this month. Systems using this processor also hold first and second place on the power side of the Top 15 Home PCs chart.

Look for speed on the Top 10 CD-RW Drives chart, too--models that can write data to CD-R discs at up to 24X have six of the ten spots. Such drives can write 70 minutes of music to a CD-R disc in less than 5 minutes.

Finally, check out our review of multifunction devices--which combine scanning, printing, and faxing tasks into one package.

Freelance writers Jon L. Jacobi, Richard Jantz, Joel Strauch, and Carla Thornton, and PC World editors Richard Baguley, Tracey Capen, Seán Captain, Lisa Cekan, Rebecca Freed, Alexandra Krasne, Melissa Perenson, Kalpana Narayanamurthi, and Alan Stafford contributed to this month's Top 100 section. Ulrike Diehlmann, Robert James, Elliott Kirschling, Jeff Kuta, Tony K. Leung, and Thomas Luong of the PC World Test Center performed testing on the products reviewed here, with support from Julio Giannobile and Julian Weatherby.

Top 15 Home PCs

The ABS Performanc.Ti 500 combines an attractive case with plenty of features to take the power Best Buy award on our Home chart.

Top 15 Notebook PCs

IBM's new ThinkPad A30p offers an optional pop-out PDA cradle that fits into one of the two expansion bays for easy syncing.

Top 10 Digital Cameras

The Kodak DX3900 Zoom works with an optional dock that recharges the battery and transfers pictures with the press of a button.

Top 10 CD-RW Drives

More 24X/10X/40X drives are coming onto our chart: This month, the Teac CD-W524E and the Sony CRX175A/A1 debut at number 6 and number 9, respectively.

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