Acer Acerpower M8

Got this from Misco as an open box for a shade under £200, so it was pretty much all set up when I plugged it in. Three years later and it's served me well. Granted, there was a corruption on the harddrive the other year and I had to have an new one installed, but that might just be down to how I use it more than anything. As with the nother reviewer, I teamed it up with an Acer 17 flatscreen monitor and it looks the business, with its silver and black colour scheme. The PC itself is more than capable of day to day tasks such as desktop publishing and web browsing, but I decided to up the RAM (simple enough and more room to plug in another GB, up to ...  Read the complete review

I've had this PC for a year now, its been pretty reliable. Its a good value package with Windows XP Pro, a pretty fast processor and a reasonable amount of RAM at 512Mb. I'm using it for general admin work, some website editing and browsing, and it is more than adequate. I've teamed it with an Acer AL1916W 19" Widescreen monitor, read my other review on that... Its a reasonably small tower case, but is suitable for expansion with extra hard drive bays and power cables and room for PCI cards and extra optical drives. There isnt a recovery CD supplied with this machine, there is a hidden partition on the hard drive which you can boot into to run a ...  Read the complete review