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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
Equipped with a 3.6-GHz Pentium 4 560 processor and 1GB of DDR2- 533 memory, the Micro Express MicroFlex 36A we tested proved very quick. It earned a score of 101 running our WorldBench 5 tests, which is about average for systems with the same processor and a similar configuration. Considering that the MicroFlex 36A also includes a whopping 500GB of storage via two 250GB RAID hard drives, the $2499 price (with a 19-inch LCD) is quite reasonable.
We would have preferred having a second optical drive; our test unit included only an 8X DVD±RW drive. Fortunately, this midsize tower has plenty of room for storage expansion, with three external bays and two internal drive bays open. Though the two PCI Express 1X slots are occupied by a serial port...