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To: Goutam who wrote (80318)	11/17/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577165

Re: "This is especially for you to recognize your efforts in carrying the SPECstuff discussion with Elmer " Hey that's one Cringe will really like. Except for 1 case, there were no scores. No system configurations or anything but percentages, so you can't verify or compare their scores to other published scores. Just what Cringe likes. Journalism at it's finest. EP

To: Goutam who wrote (80318)	11/17/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577165

Goutama, Credits to the Yahoo board for this link to the Dell system: commerce.us.dell.com Talk about value! Dell Precision Workstation 220 (the cheaper one) is only $3993. That's almost as much as I paid for my Dell p100 in 1995! Who said computers were getting cheaper? Specs: Pentium III 733 128 MB Rambus memory Matrox G400 Video 7200 RPM 13.6 GB IDE Zip Drive 48x CDROM 19" Monitor Logitech Mouse Based on the system configuration page, the following is what Dell is charging for Rambus: 64 MB RIMM - $250 128 MB RIMM - $450 256 MB RIMM - $720 Now compare this months high-end system from Sharky's: sharkyextreme.com K7 700 Asus K7M 128MB EMS PC-133 HSDRAM Western Digital Expert ATA-66 18GB Guillemot 3D Prophet 32MB AGP4X Card Viewsonic P810 21" CRT Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Platinum Cambridge SoundWorks DTT2500 Digital Speakers Pioneer DVD-114 10X DVD-ROM Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Enlight 300 watt case $3,084 To be fair, you have to put together the Sharky's system if you want that price, and it doesn't come with an OS or tech support. Warranties are limited to individual components. Of course the Sharky's dream machine also has a great sound card, speakers, bigger monitor, bigger hard drive, better video card, better mouse, and a DVD drive.....hey, but you don't get RMBS!!!! I tried to configure the Dell system similarly, but couldn't really match up components (e.g., the only similar HD was SCSI...which broke the bank). But with a bigger monitor alone I was at $4,500 something.... Oh, wait, I forgot about the Zip drive. OK, the Dell system has a zip drive. -Scot