Top 100: Gateway Gets a Dramatic Makeover

Highlighting this month's Top 15 Office PCs chart, Gateway presents a sleek, new chassis design.

Highlighting this month's Top 15 Office PCs chart, Gateway presents a sleek, new chassis design. The silver-and-black chassis radically changes the company's longtime standard--putty beige with gray accents. The functional yet aesthetically pleasing design and solid performance of the $1249 Gateway 500S boost it to the top of our value chart; a variation on this PC earns the Best Buy on our Top 15 Home PCs value chart as well.

Elsewhere in the Top 100, eight new graphics boards mark a sea change in our Top 10 Graphics Boards chart, and five new drives debut on our Top 10 CD-RW Drives chart--four of them capable of writing to CD-Rs at 40X.

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

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

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