And the Winner is....

In our shootouts, normally, we work

out a combination of price, performance, and features, and announce a

winner. This time, we have done it differently. Instead of an

all-encompassing result, we drew out three possible scenarios:

• Where you want the best performance and features that money can buy.
• Where you are more sensitive to price.
• Where you don’t care as much about the features as you do for
  
  performance and price.

And we have a winner for each of these. Thus, we have three Editor’s

Choice awards this time.

The best performance and features

that money can buy: Compaq Deskpro EP Pentium III

The best buy on a budget: VAT 2000 Celeron Multimedia

The best price-performance: HP Brio PII

Do write and tell us whether you prefer this system of drawing up

alternate scenarios, or would you rather have a single-scenario with one

winner.

		Performance +Price + Features	Performance+ 1.5 x Price +Features	Performance+Price+0.5 x Features
	Acer AcerPower 4100	207	229	172
	Cerebra Pentium II	210	247	182
	Compaq Deskpro EP PIII	244	267	195
	HP Brio PII	238	269	195
	VAT 2000 Celeron Multimedia	226	271	193
	Vintron Elixir 3000	191	217	163
	Wipro Super Genius 9000	221	249	186
	Zenith PC PIII	211	240	173