Our go-to pick for a true budget PC this summer has been the Cyberpower Back to School 2006. It delivers a dual-core CPU and 1GB of memory for $599; it'll burn DVDs; and Windows Vista, with its Aero effects, should give it little trouble, thanks to the discrete graphics card. It even has a media card reader for easy removable media swapping. The eMachines T5212 is the best competition to the Cyberpower system we've seen to date. For $570 (or $520 after rebate), the T5212 serves up a dual-core CPU, a DVD burner, and a media card reader.



Link: CNET