Thanks to its affordable $1300 price, scads of features, and strong performance on WorldBench 5, HP's Pavilion Media Center m7490n earned the Best Buy award in our recent roundup of dual-core value desktops. A terrific system for multimedia, the m7490n includes lots of extras that will appeal to photo and music mavens, and its well-labeled ports simplify the process of hooking up all the peripherals you will need. The only fly in the ointment is that we found its gaming performance to be far from superb.



Link: PC World