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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro and FreeBSD
Date: 2 Jan 1997 00:40:01 GMT
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In article <tporczyk.851889405@shellx>,
tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
> I noticed a great difference in price between PP200 and PP180 that
> doesn't seem to be justified just by the 10% higher clock speed (almost
> twice the price). Is there something about PP200 that goes beyond the
> clock speed improvement? I am about to order the new system
> (components) within the next two days (thanks IRS for forcing stupid
> schedules), and I'm grappling with this question right now.
The Dell Dimension that I have is a 256k PPro200 (rather than a 512k),
but I didn't notice a huge price difference (#1340 w/o monitor a few
months back).
If the machine you're looking at is much more expensive than this, it
may (as others have said) now have the 512k cache.
Of course the machine is way underspec'd as standard (16Mb memory and
an IDE disk) ! Needs upgrading ;)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....