Velocity Micro Vector Campus Edition

Velocity Micro Vector Campus Edition
A powerful, inexpensive college-oriented desktop

THERE ARE BENEFITS TO COLLEGE, but being broke isn't exactly one of them. Instead of eating ramen for nine months straight, why not trim your tech budget by opting for a stocked system at a very good price, such as Velocity Micro's $1,999 Vector Campus Edition?
It's loaded with extras you probably wouldn't expect but will undoubtedly appreciate, such as a built-in Wi-Fi card, a TV tuner (and a large 500GB hard drive) for recording TV shows using Windows Vista Home Premium's Media Center software while you're at class, a multiformat media-card reader for transferring photos from your camera, and some useful software apps in Nero 7 (for burning CDs and DVDs using the included DVD+-RW optical drive), and full year's subsscription to Norton AntiVirus 2008.
You also get above-average performance, courtesy of the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and 512MB nVidia GeForce 8800GT graphics card that offers decent potential for playing games-after you've finished studying. Unless you plan on doing a lot of video editing or 3D rendering, you probably won't have to worry about having enough power for anything you want to do. (There's no FireWire port, so extracting video fro a camcorder might be tough anyway.)
Because the Vector Campus Edition is based on a smaller style of motherboard-and all the slots are filled-you won't be able to add a second graphics card or a sound card without removing something first. But it turns out you need storage space, there are places for two more hard drives, as well as room for another optical drive.- Mathew Murray
source: Computer Shopper September 2008.

www.velocitymicro.com