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To: Yargnad who wrote (37804)	11/29/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Helpinout: Welcome back. I guess we will just have to keep on plagiarising your work. Feel free to reciprocate (but jajajajaja is copyrighted). Victor _From the Yahoo Thread El,vepoc,rudedog & SI thread OT by: hlpinout 43684 of 43687 Thank you all for your comments. For me there is no greater satisfaction than to be respected by my fellow man and am flattered. To S.I. thread, I feel perhaps that I will continue to post here as there are probably more new investors that benefit on this board cuz your's is too darn hard to find! Wish I would have found you earlier as there are many sharp cookies over there with great atmosphere. I get disgusted every now and then at the lack of attendance by Yahoo and that may change my view (only so much tolerance ya'know?).Besides, with the people you have over there, it would be redundant for me to post on both boards and rely on El,vepoc,and the others I have missed, to continue to abstract whatever and post it there. Knowledge is a good thing! p.s. Still suffering from jet lag so for these typos may get worse on these postings.

To: Yargnad who wrote (37804)	11/29/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

From "helpinout". Victor _________________ mpaq Selected Reference PC for Windows Mag. Online by: hlpinout 43685 of 43688 December 01, 1998, Issue: 912 Section: Reviews New Reference PC: a Versatile And Manageable Workhorse Jonathan Blackwood One of the pleasures of selecting a new reference system-the one on which we base all our WinScores-is that we get to spend six months with it. Our new reference PC, the 400MHz Compaq Deskpro EP 6400X/14000/CDS, should be easy to live with. For starters, there's the configuration: a 400MHz Pentium II processor, 512KB of level 2 cache, a 14.4GB IBM Ultra DMA hard disk, 64MB of SDRAM, an Iomega Zip drive and a 32X CD-ROM drive. For communications, there's a Compaq 10/100 PCI Ethernet card with an Intel Wake on LAN controller and a V.90-compatible 56K fax modem. Compaq includes its excellent V75 17-inch monitor with a fine 0.26mm dot pitch and a flat-square tube. Like others in the Deskpro EP line, this system's versatile case lets you rotate the drive bays to turn a desktop configuration into a tower. It's a nice idea, but tight quarters and short cables make this hard to accomplish. An IT department, however, would have little trouble with the conversion. The EP 6400X/14000/CDS sports a raft of manageability features, including DMI 2.0 compliance, Wake on LAN, remote system installation, unattended installation from a network server, boot from network, remote Flash ROM upgrade, remote diagnostics and asset control. All Deskpros are supported by a prefailure warranty for hard drives: If a failure is predicted, Compaq will replace the drive at no cost, even if it doesn't fail. Testing, testing You can get this PC with Win95, 98 or NT 4.0. We tested the identical configuration under all three operating systems-as the reference system, the Deskpro's WinScore 3.0 mark under each OS is 100. Under Win95, this Deskpro racked up 1132MIPS, 107MB-per-second cached-disk throughput and 58Mpixel-per-second video throughput. Average application test times were 8.10 seconds for multimedia, 174.38 seconds for Word, 189.07 seconds for Excel and 35.73 seconds for AutoCAD. Win98 scores were 1123MIPS, 83MBps cached-disk throughput and 86Mpixel-per-second video throughput. It took an average of 8.18 seconds to run our multimedia script, 174.77 seconds for Word, 191.77 seconds for Excel and 24.51 seconds for AutoCAD. NT 4.0 results were 1127MIPS, 305MBps cached-disk throughput and 106Mpixel-per-second video throughput. Average application times were 8.07 seconds for multimedia, 173.22 seconds for Word, 164.77 seconds for Excel and 24.10 seconds for AutoCAD. The EP 6400X comes with a three-year parts, one-year labor and on-site service warranty. Compaq earned a "Good" rating on our 1998 WINDOWS Magazine tech support survey. Another winner Our final criterion in selecting a reference PC is that it must be a system we'd recommend. The 400MHz Deskpro EP 6400X certainly qualifies. It compares very favorably with its kin on our WinList, the Deskpro EN 6400X/6400/CDS, but the more flexible EP has a standard motherboard. Plus, the EP 6400X also ranks with the best corporate PCs from IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway. The Deskpro EP 6400X/14000/CDS is a great choice for the enterprise and a worthy WinList addition. --Quick View-- Compaq Deskpro EP 6400X/14000/CDS Bottom Line: A powerful, flexible and manageable system that's built to last Price: $2,568; with NT, $2,638