Word: presario
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...poker, as usual. Still, it'll be a comfort. In the meantime, I've been sampling the latest, fastest chip off the block: a 650-MHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later this month on selected Compaq Presario and IBM Aptiva 865 machines. For the first time in ages, beleaguered AMD has a speed edge over rival Intel, whose Pentium III chips chug away at (yawn...
Compaq lent me a preproduction Presario that comes with the Athlon chip and all the dressings (128 megs of RAM, DVD drive and so on). It's certainly a match for the Dell Dimension XPS T500, which I wrote about in March on the heels of Intel's launch of the Pentium III. In fact, it's faster--at least, according to the specs and benchmark tests conducted by various know-it-all trade magazines. But what does that mean to me? To find out, I tried a few real-world tests. It took me 48 sec. to install Hoyle...
With that in mind, it's still possible to handicap the new players. The phone line networking crowd is clearly ahead of the pack, with more companies backing the technology. Compaq, for one, is selling a Presario desktop PC model already prepped to work with a home phone-line networking system. (See box for information on other products...
Computers are getting so cheap, sellers are practically giving them away. Last week online retailer OnSale onsale.com began hawking computers at wholesale prices, featuring a Compaq Presario with a 333-MHz Cyrix chip, for example, for just $560 (monitor sold separately). Earlier this month, Packard Bell NEC unveiled a $500 machine powered by a 300-MHz chip. Once a novelty used by upstart vendors trying to get the edge on market leaders, inexpensive PCs are becoming the norm, with average retail prices hovering around...
...worry if you missed out on a cheap PC late last year. Considering the better deals this month, holiday shoppers may be the ones with regrets. Retailers sold mainly entry-level computers but now are overstocked with higher-powered systems. Radio Shack has a fully loaded 333-MHz Compaq Presario for $999, and Best Buy is offering a similar Packard Bell system at the same low price...