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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (28070)	8/30/1999 3:18:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Jd, Awesome find!!!! Kudos to you and OldTimerInvestor. I downloaded the pages because someone has screwed up royally. My guess is that those pages are going to disappear very quickly from the Dell web site, since Intel embargoes the information about new products until the day of the launch (yep, 9/27 it is!). This information should not be on-line yet! To summarize for all (in case they're gone by tomorrow morning), Dell will have Optiplex GX200 (probably replacing the GX1 Mainstream family) and GX300 (probably replacing the GX1p Performance family) products that support 64M to 1G of 700 Mhz DRDRAM !? They will also have GX100 (already available) and GX110 families that support PC-100 SDRAM. The Optiplex line is defined as: "OPTIPLEX© Industry-standard, dependable managed PCs designed for reliability and compatibility in networked environments". Their other desktop lines are the: DIMENSION© ("Performance and value come standard with these versatile desktops for the home and the office") and DELL PRECISION? WORKSTATIONS ("A perfect partner for the professional who needs high-end video and amazing 2D and 3D graphics"). So the enterprise-targeted systems ("Managed Systems") will get DRDRAM first. No surprise. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the Precision line support DRDRAM as well, but I doubt we'll get an early web page to look once they figure this out. <g> Here's another page in the set for the GX300 (with some highlights extracted. Also, you can replace the 'GX300' in the link with 'GX200' to see it's information): dell.com Integrated performance for ultimate productivity. Pentium© III processor-based systems with the Intel© 820 chipset and RDRAM memory technology. Starting at $ ???? So no pricing info yet... Feature Intel 820 chipset Function Delivers advanced desktop performance, by supporting: * New Family of Pentium© III Processors with 133 MHz Front Side Bus * Direct Rambus DRAM * AGP 4X Graphics * 2 Channels for Ultra DMA/66 BM/s IDE Benefits * High system performance by eliminating FFB bandwidth bottlebeck * Concurrent processing of applications Advanced 3D Graphics * Advanced peripheral performance * Enables future I/O expansion Feature RDRAM Memory Technology Functions * Helps maximize the number of simultaneous transactions at peak data rates of 1.6 GB/sec * Quadruples memory throughput over current memory technologies Benefits * Allows for faster throughput for upcoming technologies like Windows© 2000 and Office 2000 As uncle says, "drip...drip....SPLASH!!!!!" Dave p.s. When you do a search on the Dell web site for GX200 or GX300, the site returns 0 hits. p.p.s. Notice the conflict between using 700Mhz DRDRAM and the claim of "peak data rates of 1.6 GB/sec"? It would only be 1.4 GB/sec.