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Tangent Pendant LCD-7500

75

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Pros
All-in-one PC plus TV is a space saver
Cons
Extremely limited expandability

Performance: Good: 77
Features: Good: 73
Design: Good: 76

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

Performance
ACD Systems ACDSee	675
Adobe Photoshop	437
Adobe Premiere	569
Ahead Nero	537
Discreet 3ds Max DirectX	523
Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL	503
Microsoft Office XP	569
Mozilla	642
Multitasking	844
Musicmatch Jukebox	577
Overall Graphics Score	Fair
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	47.3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	46.07
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	39.7
Roxio VideoWave	333
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 16-Bit	87.18
Unreal Tournament, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	65.58
Unreal Tournament, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	45.64
Windows Media Encoder	443
WinZip	440
World Bench 5 Score	80
World Bench 5 Word Score	Good

What You Should Know about the Pendant LCD-7500

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.