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HP rp5700 LLDT

70

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Pros
Energy efficient, EPEAT-Gold rated
Nice design
Cons
Not as powerful as competitors

Performance: Very Good: 80
Features: Good: 74
Design: Good: 77

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

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	635
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	677
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	901
Firefox 2	403
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	484
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	307
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	673
Overall Graphics Score	Poor
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	275
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	378
WorldBench 6 Score	67
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	499

What You Should Know about the rp5700 LLDT

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.