Henry And All - Another Dual Pentium II/300 MHz Workstation Announcement
Someday these sales will boost Intel's margins, revenue, and (eventually) their stock!
Paul
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NeTpower takes performance lead with delivery of dual Pentium II
300MHz systems
Cheetah drives help fuel superior systems performance
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1997--NeTpower, the Windows NT(R) systems company,
today announced delivery and general availability of SYMETRA2(TM) 300MHz dual Pentium(R) II processor
workstations.
NeTpower, continuing to lead the market in price/performance solutions, is the first to extend the performance
lead of Pentium II- based systems in markets traditionally held by UNIX system vendors. SYMETRA2 is
currently the only 300MHz workstation available on the market today that is Microsoft(R) Windows NT 4.0
certified.
Now MCAD professionals, digital media artists, and Web content creators can achieve even higher levels of
interactivity, insight, and realism in their designs and models while utilizing an industry standard platform
design. Preliminary 300MHz benchmark results demonstrate application performance improvements of more
than 33% over other Pentium Pro-based systems.
``NeTpower's ability to recognize different leading-edge technologies, integrate them quickly into our solutions
set and be the first to deliver to our customers, continues to prove a winning strategy,'' said Dave Ludvigson,
president of NeTpower. ``Our customers continually look to us to provide the best-of-breed solutions available.''
NeTpower compliments this 300MHz announcement with the availability of Seagate's 4GB Cheetah 10,000
RPM SCSI disk drives. The Cheetah drive is the highest random I/O transaction performance disc drive
available today. The 10,000 RPM drive provides unmatched performance for demanding read/write
applications such as graphics visualization and non-linear video editing.
``Disk throughput is a key element in providing users improved application performance. The performance
achieved by the Seagate Cheetah complements the processing and graphics performance of the
SYMETRA2,'' said Del Hunter, director of technical marketing at NeTpower.
Application level benchmarks have demonstrated that the Cheetah drive can deliver up to 50% higher
performance, compared to previous Ultra SCSI disk drives.
Microsoft HCL certification of NeTpower 300MHz SYMETRA2 workstations ensures compatibility with popular
MCAD, digital media, and web serving and authoring applications. Each SYMETRA2 is pre-configured with
Windows NT 4.0 and is rigorously tested prior to shipment to ensure customer reliability.
SYMETRA2 can be configured with any of NeTpower's TRUEfx(TM) or ULTRAfx(TM) graphics subsystems,
high-performance OpenGL-based 3D graphics accelerators that have been optimized for Windows NT.
TRUEfx and ULTRAfx deliver high-performance texture-mapped 3D graphics, including Gouraud shading,
depth buffering, anti-aliasing and alpha blending. Each system supports a minimum of true color at 1280x1024
resolution.
Pricing and Availability
SYMETRA2 is available now and list pricing begins at $8,815 for a base configuration that includes a single
300MHz Pentium II processor, 64 MB EDO/ECC RAM, one 2GB Ultra Wide SCSI-3 disk drive, and a TRUEfx
3D graphics card. Each system is pre-installed with Windows NT version 4.0 and comes standard with one
10/100 Base-TX fast networking PCI-based card, one Ultra Wide external SCSI-3 controller, SoundBlaster
Audio, one flexible disk drive, and a 12X CD- ROM drive.
NeTpower, Inc.
NeTpower, Inc., founded in 1993, is the only computer systems company exclusively focused on development,
offering, supporting and optimizing the Microsoft Windows NT environment as a cost-effective,
high-performance alternative to UNIX.
The company's Pentium Pro and Pentium II processor-based workstations and servers -- designed for digital
media, MCAD, database/infoserver and Internet applications -- based on customer requirements offer the
power of UNIX machines at a fraction of the price while providing the ease-of-use capabilities of Microsoft
Windows NT.
NeTpower's management team consists of some of the foremost experts in the systems industry. The company
is headquartered in Sunnyvale, and has offices worldwide. For information on NeTpower's products and
services, visit our Web site at netpower.com
Note To Editors: NeTpower, SYMETRA2, TRUEfx, and ULTRAfx are trademarks of NeTpower, Inc. Pentium is
either a registered trademark or trademark of Intel Corp. Microsoft and Windows NT, are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. UNIX is a registered
trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. All other
trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
