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AOpen XC Cube MZ855

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Pros
Extremely small
Cons
Very slow

Performance: Fair: 60
Features: Poor: 57
Design: Good: 71

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	852
Adobe Photoshop	500
Adobe Premiere	696
Ahead Nero	1094
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	672
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	694
Microsoft Office XP	647
Mozilla	667
Multitasking	1151
Musicmatch Jukebox	805
Overall Graphics Score	Poor
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	31.1
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	25.7
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	17.1
Roxio VideoWave	594
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	44.62
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	17.05
Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	11.12
Windows Media Encoder	655
WinZip	545
World Bench 5 Score	63
World Bench 5 Word Score	Fair

What You Should Know about the XC Cube MZ855

A PC With Little Included RAM Can Do Light Work

This system offers less than 1GB of memory, which is the bare minimum that any full-featured new computer should include. Whether this amount of RAM is optimal for you depends on the PC's operating system: Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X don't run well with less than 1GB, Windows XP is fine with 512MB and not too bad with 384MB, and Windows 98 is good with 256MB. Depending on the distribution, Linux can run with as little as 128MB, but most Linux users are better off with at least 512MB--and 1GB is better.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is a snap, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.