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WHAT'S HOT: The most compelling feature of this PC--a close sibling to the 500XL we tested in November, and sporting the same attractive black-and-silver design--is the accompanying 18-inch Gateway FPD1810 LCD. It's an especially generous offering for a system with a $1619 price tag. The contoured, silver-toned monitor produced lovely colors when it displayed a test photo, while its text looked sharp even at small font sizes. The panel can accept both analog and digital signals from a compatible video card (the DVI adapter is included).
WHAT'S NOT: Equipped with 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 CPU and 512MB of DDR266 SDRAM, our sample 500X eked out a relatively pokey PC WorldBench 4 score...