2.2GHz PC for £599....

Following Sunday's item about new cheap Intel Celerons, I notice Evesham is using the 2.2GHz variant -- it's advertised in the printed copy of today's Guardian. The company is offering 1,000 units (the prices I quoted on Sunday were for 1,000 processors) of the Evolution 2200C with 512MB of memory, 80GB drive, 64MB ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card, DVD/CD-RW combo drive and Windows XP Home for £599 including VAT, but that's without a monitor. The system price is not far off what you would have paid for the Intel processor alone about 18 months ago, except that the Celeron version only has 128K of cache memory -- half as much as a full Pentium 4. A Mac G4 with a comparable specification is £2,119 but for that you get the Radeon 9000. If you want a 17in LCD display, add £430 to Evesham's price or £821 to Apple's.