PCWorld: Review – Acer Veriton X480G Desktop PC
It offers solid performance and better-than-average storage capacity but upgradability is limited and this $600 desktop isn’t the best of the bunch. (Click the ‘Similar Products’ tab to see higher-rated products.)
“The Acer Veriton X480G is a pretty good budget PC. At $599 (as of March 30, 2010), it’s priced well for the general performance it delivers–but is it really an example of a solid value overall? When pitted against the $559 Gateway SX2840-01, the X480G doesn’t quite achieve desktop glory. And though the $40 price difference separating the systems might not seem like much, every little bit matters in the world of low-cost, low-profile desktop PCs.
If you’re looking at the specs on paper, the X480G seems to have a leg up with its 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 (Wolfdale) processor versus the Gateway SX2840-01’s 2.93GHz Core i3-530 (Clarkdale) CPU. However, the differences between the CPU architectures became apparent when we compared the two desktops’ results in our WorldBench 6 suite of tests. Even though the Acer’s processor has a faster clock speed than the Gateway’s CPU does, the X480G’s WorldBench 6 mark of 120 was not a significant improvement on the SX2840-01’s score of 118.”