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Spec Watch

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DQI Bureau
New Update

Hardware obsolescence has become so much a

part of the IS managers daily routine that no one talks of it again! In fact many

companies resort to quarterly purchases not only to smoothen out fund flows, but also to

try and keep up with technological change.

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Adding more confusion is the myriad

offerings from various vendors. While one offers a machine with a monitor and another does

not, a third one gives the price of a slower CPU and a fourth gives you DOS as the

operating system!

What specs should you look for if you are

ordering your machines today?

Here are our recommended minimum specs for

various types of applications.



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Usage Word

processing, presentations, Email, medium sized spreadsheets
Databases,

large spreadsheets, big presentations, entry level graphics, DTP
Heavy

graphics, animation, CAD / CAM
Multimedia,

Games, TV/ Video CD
Multimedia,

Games, TV/ Video CD
CPU P 200

MMX or equivalent
P II

266 / 333
Dual

PII 333
P 200

MMX or equivalent
PII

333
Cache 256

KB
512

KB
512

KB
512

KB
512

KB
RAM 32 MB 64 MB 256

MB
32 MB 64 MB
Hard

Disk
1.2GB 2 GB

+
SCSI

4 GB +
2 GB

+
4 GB

+
Monitor 15

" SVGA Color
15

" SVGA Color
17

" SVGA Color
15

" SVGA Color
15

" SVGA Color
Display

card
2 D

Accelerator
2D

Accelerator
2D /

Professional 3D Accelerator
2 D

Accelerator
3D

Accelerator

for gaming

V

RAM
2 MB 4 MB 4 MB 2 MB 4 MB
Network

card
10 /

100 Mbps
10 /

100 Mbps
100

Mbps
CD-

ROM Drive
Optional 24 X

/ DVD ROM drive
24 X

/ DVD ROM drive
24 X

/ DVD ROM drive
DVD

ROM drive
Sound

card
Optional AWE

64
Sound

Blaster Pro compatible
Sound

Blaster AWE 64
Pointing

device
Mouse Mouse

/ track pad
Mouse

/ tablet
Mouse

/ Joystick
Mouse

& Joystick
Modem 33.6

Kbps
33.6

Kbps
Operating

System
Windows

95
Windows

95 / Windows NT 4
Windows

NT / UNIX
Windows

95
Windows

95
Others SCSI

card
AGP

video card
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