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| September 01, 2008 | Murray, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 2008 SX2 Media Labs LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 $1,199 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 memory-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 [+ or -] RW optical drive), and a full year's subscription to Norton AntiVirus 2008.

You also get above-average performance, courtesy of the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 512MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card that offers decent potential for playing games--after you've finished studying. Unless you plan on doing a lot of ...

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