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Fujitsu Siemens hasn't placed a huge emphasis on style for the Scenic range. Fortunately, this isn't a big issue even now, as style usually comes fairly low on the agenda for business buyers: features, support and service should be the deciding factors, along with price and performance.
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Gigabit Ethernet is a bonus if your office network will take advantage, and it's backwards compatible with 10/100 networks in the meantime, while legacy parallel and serial ports allow older peripherals to be hooked up. The basic keyboard and ball mouse use the PS/2 ports, leaving four USB 2 ports free at the back. Naturally there are two at the front, along with headphone and microphone sockets. There's also a Smart Card slot, but the reader itself isn't installed. You can specify one for an extra £25.
The larger desktop chassis provides more expansion potential than most and there are two full-height PCI slots and a half-height AGP slot available. All are tool-less, but the AGP clip fouls the PCI slots, so an engineer would need to remove the riser before adding or removing a graphics card. Full-size DVD-ROM and floppy drives match the front panel's grey shade; the former is on sliding rails, but the floppy drive is held in with screws. Disconnecting the short floppy drive cables allows you to flip the drives upwards, giving access to the memory sockets.
Cooling is provided by two temperature-controlled fans. They're not the quietest here, but you'll still be hard pushed to hear any noise in an air-conditioned office. If desk space is at a premium, two feet are provided for vertically mounting the chassis. Security-wise, there's a flimsy key lock at the front and a security loop for a Kensington lock at the rear.
Warranty-wise, cover is for three years but the 48-hour response falls behind most. Upgrading to next-business-day costs £175 per machine. It's this that hampers the E600, but Fujitsu Siemens is currently offering a free 17in CRT monitor. This makes the E600 a more compelling choice, but still isn't enough to propel the E600 past the HP or Dell.