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To: Investor A who wrote (25917)	4/15/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: AB	Respond to of 33344

First look at CPQ's $1,220 w/o monitor Celeron box: zdnet.com Performance Comparing this machine's performance to that of other systems we've tested recently is very difficult, because of its configuration (for example, the system has no L2 cache). The Deskpro EP 6266 had 32MB of RAM and an ATI Rage IIC AGP graphics board with 2MB of nonupgradable EDO RAM. Because of the graphics board's memory limitations, we couldn't test at a color depth greater than 16 bits. The last time we tested corporate managed PCs with 32MB of RAM and at a 16-bit color depth was for our December 2 roundup ("The Best PCs for '97 & '98"). The processors ranged from a 166-MHz Pentium MMX to a 233-MHz Pentium MMX (the systems had either 256K of L2 cache or, more typically, 512K). The Deskpro EP 6266's Winstone score--15.3--was a bit lower than that of the average 233-MHz Pentium MMX PC in that roundup. In fact, it was only about one point better than that of the roundup's 166-MHz Pentium MMX PC. And its CPUmark score was actually ten points lower than that system's. Anthony