I will be honest about the capabilities of this system, because as a professional I now this system better than most, which should tell you where I work.......... By the way this system is also known as the E510 (stands for Entertainment 510)
What’s Inside The System Tower ?????
Intel® Pentium® 4 5XX and 6XX processors with Hyper-Threading technology
NOTE: Not all Pentium 4 processors support Hyper-Threading technology and/or dual-core processing.
Level 1 (L1) cache 16 KB
Level 2 (L2) cache 1 MB for Pentium 5XXX processors
2 MB for Pentium 6XXX processors
(depending on your computer configuration) pipelined-burst, eight-way set associative, write-back SRAM)
Chip set Intel 945G Express
DMA channels eight
Interrupt levels 24
BIOS chip (NVRAM) 4-Mb
NIC Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication.
System Clock 800- or 1066-MHz data rate (depending on processor)
Video : Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (GMA950)
Audio : Sigmatel STAC9220
Connectors
External connectors:
Video 15-hole connector
Network adapter RJ-45 connector
USB two front-panel and five back-panel USB 2.0-compliant connectors
Audio five connectors for line-in, line-out, microphone/ side-surround, surround, and center/subwoofer connector (LFE channel); two front-panel connectors for headphones and microphone
System Board Connectors:
Primary IDE drive one 40-pin connector on PCI local bus
Serial ATA two 7-pin connectors
FlexBay Drive one USB 10-pin header for optional Media Card Reader (3.5-inch bay device)
Floppy drive one 34-pin connector
Fan one 5-pin connector
PCI 2.3 two 120-pin connectors
PCI Express x1 one 36-pin connector
PCI Express x16 164-pin connector
Physical
Height 41.4 cm (16.3 inches)
Width 18.8 cm (7.4 inches)
Depth 45.7 cm (18.0 inches)
Weight 12.7 kg (28 lbs)
Now based on the specifications a person well versed with computer specifications, you will find it a decent platform for a system. For the naive .... It is a mid range system, not a high end gaming machine (though it can become one with a good graphics card) and not a low end one. It comes in the entertainment class of media centre pc’s that has the ability to play live tv (if the system has a tv tuner card installed), play a few games go online and do all of the stuff people do on their home systems meant for the whole family..... It’s a pity this is available only in the U.S and European markets......
For those of you located there and looking for a home pc at a medium price, this one system you can consider and trust me when I say this, a four year warranty will take you a long way with hardware technical support for part replacement.
NOTE : DELL does not provide free operating system / software assistance for the Dimension line of systems, because these systems are sold at a low price and software support is not sold as a part of the initial price nor is the buyer charged for the same.