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To: Meathead who wrote (38058)	4/16/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

M, Price differences in 'published' material. Printed material advertising has to be committed to as much as 90 days in advance, and care has to be taken that a product isn't underpriced (costs more to produce than offered for sale for) or overpriced, costs more to deliver than the customer is willing to pay. Many time you will call and find that instead of the 6.4G hard disk advertised the system may be delivered with an 8.4G hard disk at no extra charge! As for the speed differences, now I haven't looked at the specific comparison that you are referencing, but if you are talking about a 210 vs. 208 - who cares? As an aside, were the HDs the same model? Access time? T to T access? Sometimes a score is influenced by the I/O speed. Another, was one SDRAM and the other EDO? Just a question? Regards, Ken

To: Meathead who wrote (38058)	4/18/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

Meathead - I think everyone on the inside of the industry knows that those magazine shootouts are won by the company that has a close enough relationship with the magazine to go in and tweak their system for the tests. Will a GTW machine with the disk cache parameters, memory allocation, etc adjusted just right beat a Dell pulled out of the box with no tweaking? is a blue bird blue? You would have gotten exactly the same results with two dell (or two GTW) machines set up the same way... since they ARE the same from a component point of view! good point, keep up the clear thinking.