peng@cs.umn.edu (Lim Ee Peng) (01/16/91)
I intend to get a 386 of the following configuration 33MHz, 4 MB RAM, Multi-IO, VGA card I am the following questions in mind and may be some of you can give me valuable advice on them. 1. Is the above machine too powerful for ordinally business application? 2. What is the reasonable price I should be looking for? 3. What is best kind of hard disk that will match the speed of the CPU? Thanks Peng (peng@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu) .
mark@diasonx.UUCP (Mark Quattrocchi) (01/17/91)
In article <1991Jan15.171833.20599@cs.umn.edu> peng@cs.umn.edu (Lim Ee Peng) writes: >I intend to get a 386 of the following configuration > > 33MHz, 4 MB RAM, Multi-IO, VGA card > >Thanks >Peng (peng@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu) You should be able to get the following for $2000-2100. I bought this system for $2499 in April. A friend just purchased the same system for $2049. Add about $65 for each meg of ram extra. 33mhz CPU (AMI bios) 64k cache 1 meg 2 serial ports 1 parallel port 1 game port VGA board 1024x768x16,640x480x256 color monitor 1024x768x16, 640x480x256 110meg ESDI drive and controller 250 watt supply tower case Mark Quattrocchi, {3comvax|cygnet}!diasonx!mark, mark@diasonx