Gateway DX4200-UB001A
Desktops Buying Guide
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CNET editors' rating:
3.5 stars
Very good
THE GOOD
Best overall system in its price range; 64-bit Windows Vista aids memory efficiency; largest hard drive at this price
THE BAD
More RAM than is immediately worthwhile.
THE BOTTOM LINE
We can forgive Gateway for cramming the DX4200 with more memory than it needs simply because its specs and overall performance are the best in its price class. Of the various do-it-all lower midrange PCs out there, this one gets our nod.
CNET Reader Reviews
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August 27, 2008 06:24
4.5/5
Wow. I only looked away for a few months, and suddenly 64 bit computing is becoming mainstream. When my home-built desktop gave up the ghost, I drove over to Best Buy and found this puppy; I about fell over backwards when I read the specs and saw th... read more » -
August 29, 2008 07:45
4.0/5
I had some trepidation about the AMD quad core. It was trashed on Tom's Hardware forum. There's a bug on L3 cache bug on Phenom processor with models ending in 00. But I think it was all sound and fury signifying nothing. Maybe for elitist (and I'd ... read more » -
August 19, 2008 06:03
4.0/5
I do a lot of development in Virtual machines, this system is perfect for that. With plenty of RAM I can allocate a fair piece of RAM to each virtual machine without it degrading the performance on the rest of the system. I run Linux as a base syste... read more »
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