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Capitol Dream Station

Capitol Dream Station
Thursday November 18, 2004
Written by Ty Pendlebury
Tags: barebones | small | form | factor | media | center | XPC
AUD
$3250
Price at time of review.
Nominating Sato as our winner for the desktop machines this month was fairly straightforward, especially when compared to deciding the outcome of the closely-fought notebook war. Because, even though the Sato was outdone by one or two systems in terms of performance, nothing beat it on pure value for money.
Vendor Capitol Dream
CPU model/brand Intel Pentium 4
CPU speed 3.2GHz
Memory capacity 512MB
RAM type PC3200
HD capacity 120GB
HD type PATA
Graphics 256MB ATI RADEON X600 PRO
Monitor model/brand Samsung 172X
Screen size 17in
Operating system Windows Media Center
Price 3250
Supplier Capitol Computers
This article appeared in the December 2004 issue of PC Authority.
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