Mark,
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sells a 200 MHz PPro with a CD-ROM, 2GB HD, 64M DRAM, graphics accelerator, and 21" monitor for $6000
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I have been looking to by a PP200 system, so have been looking at prices. This system price seems to be very high vs what I have seen. I was looking at a system with 8x SCSI, 3GB HD (SCSI), 64M EDO, Matrox 4MB, & 21" monitor with NT 4.0 at a price of about $4800. The numbers vs your $10000 Alpha would be different given this pricing. If you take out the monitor (about $1700) you would be comparing $3100 against $8300. Again the numbers would be different. When comparing you need to compare apples to apples. If any of the components utilized are optimized for a particular architecture, you are comparing apples to oranges. Many systems have been optimized to give excellent performance on certain standard tests but have an overall impression of lesser performance when other factors are considered.
The best way to compare these processors is to design systems that have everything equal, everything optimized the same, then run the tests.
Regards,
dmg- |
