Gateway ZX4300-01e

Gateway ZX4300-01e

Among budget all-In-one desktops (with screen sizes 20 inches and smaller), you'll find the Gateway ZX4300-01e near the top of the class. This 20-inch, single-touch system-in-a-screen delivers admirable performance for a killer $750 cost (as of June 24, 2010). That's a fairly standard price for the category, but Gateway made a few cuts to reach it--and some of those subtractions can detract from the ZX4300-01e's speed-oriented appeal. Gateway opts for an AMD-based setup in this all-in-one system, stashing a 2.7GHz Athlon II X2 Dual-Core 235e CPU alongside 4GB of DDR3-1333 memory. That isn't the speediest chip around, but it helped the ZX4300-01e reach a WorldBench 6 score of 97. Compare that with Acer's 23-inch Aspire Z5600-U1352, a big-screen all-in-one that posted a mark of 98 and costs $200 more. The ZX4300-01e's 640GB hard drive provides a fairly average amount of storage for a system in this size and price classification. And as is the case with a majority of all-in-one PCs, the ZX4300-01e's integrated ATI Radeon HD 4270 GPU does little to allow this machine to show off modern games in any playable capacity. On the plus side, the games that you manage to get running will look nice.