eMachines Announces $599 T6520 Media Center PC
By Alexander Grundner |
June 27th, 2005 
eMachines, last Thursday (6/23), announced that they will be launching a new line of “Affordable, High-Performance PCs” most notably the sub-$600 T6520 MCE PC which boasts an impressive feature-set comparable to PC systems costing close to $1,000. According the company’s press release, “[the T6520's] AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor provides 64-bit processing for leading-edge performance today and in the future. The system also provides outstanding graphics performance thanks to the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics, support for DirectX 9.0 and an available PCI Express x16 slot for any potential future graphics upgrade. It comes with a huge 200GB hard drive running at 7200 RPM with 2MB cache for maximum performance when accessing and storing digital media files. The surprisingly large 1GB DDR SDRAM further boosts the system’s performance. The system also features an 8-in-1 media card reader and two optical drives — a 16x double-layer multi-format DVD±RW drive and a CD-ROM drive — for music, video, and data recording and playback.”
No doubt the T6520 will be a popular model for home entertainment use, but the drawback to such an “affordable” system is that eMachines does not include a TV tuner card(s) for PVR functionality or supply a high-end audio card – both of which could most likely be upgraded once they go online. In addition, the 2MB cache (average is 8MB these days) on the 200GB hard drive seems a bit weak for “maximum performance,” but if the PC is intended for use as a secondary PC it’s still a hell of a deal.
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