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To: $Mogul who wrote (9576)	12/11/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

What is this new MS 2000 product...? I believe when you say MS 2000 you mean Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is Microsoft's upgrade to Windows NT and will be available in February 2000. In my opinion, which is worth 2 cents, both the Dell Precision Workstation and the Trikinetic F5 Workstation have more than enough horsepower for use as a trade station. My suggestion is because you want to get this computer purchased and paid for before 1-1-2000 is to get a cost estimate and delivery schedule from both Dell and Trikinetic for your dream machine and go with the Company you feel most comfortable with. With the tight schedule you are on and because you are asking for the fastest production CPU your biggest problem might be delivery. I have heard it is going to be hard to get a computer with a P3 733 megahertz CPU before the end of the year. If you had more time like, 3 or 4 months, the participants on this thread could come up with a lot more suggestions for a great trade station at a lower cost. Are the new motherboards now ready for the fastest P3 733MHZ Chips sets using RDRAM. Must be. Dell says you can get Precision Workstation 420 with a 733 MHz CPu and the 420 leverages Rambus RDRAM memory. I would like some opinions to a SCSI system The majority of the participants on this thread feel IDE hard drives are much more cost effective than SCSI hard drives and you don't gain enough additional performance to warrant the extra cost.