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Micro Express MicroFlex 450B

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Pros
Excellent array of back ports
Very expandable
Cons
Bundled 19-inch LCD is on the small side

Performance: Superior: 91
Features: Very Good: 83
Design: Very Good: 85

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	344
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	313
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	309
Doom 3 with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	178.7
Doom 3 with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	180.93
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	180.53
Doom 3, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	181.57
Far Cry with AA, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	219.85
Far Cry with AA, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	212.81
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	221.3
Far Cry, 1280 by 1024, 32-Bit	215.6
Firefox 2	204
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	329
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	195
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	401
Overall Graphics Score	Good
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	202
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	209
WorldBench 6 Score	119
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Superior

WorldBench 6 Tests
Multitasking	231

What You Should Know about the MicroFlex 450B

Large Amount of RAM Produces Blazing Performance

Simply put, this computer is likely to offer blazing performance. The large amount of RAM it ships with is more than enough to handle most memory-hungry applications and large files, and as a result the PC won't constantly swap memory to its hard drive.

The more installed memory your PC has, the more applications you can run smoothly at once, and the better the system will perform. Upgrading memory in a desktop after you purchase the PC is simple, but usually it's worthwhile to buy the amount of memory you want preinstalled with the system.

To use more than 4GB of memory on your PC, you need either Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (limited to 128GB) or a 64-bit version of Windows Vista (which can handle 128GB and beyond).