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Top 20 Budget Desktops

Price cuts keep Micro Express and Gateway among the Best Buys, while Dell and NEC fill out the fab five.

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At first glance, the new budget chart might look like a twin of last month's chart: The same impressive systems from Micro Express, Gateway, Dell, and NEC still rule Best Buy territory, thanks partly to substantial price cuts. Just one new system, Micro Express's MicroFlex C400A, a Pentium II-400 machine, cracks the top five. It offers a winning combination of PII-400 speed, good features, and a low price. For the first time, meanwhile, a Pentium II-450 system finds its way onto the budget chart: Sneaking in at number 20, IDot.com's $1998 Entrepreneur BX450 is the second-cheapest PII-450 system we've seen. (The new ProGen Polaris PII-450 is priced at $1879, but it failed to make the Top 20.)

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