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- Black Dog Computer BLY 486DX2 model Poodle 486, Black Dog
- Corporation
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- The DX2-66 from Black Dog just barely missed being included
- in our top five for overall value. Like the other successes
- in this tough field, the Black Dog does well by doing a
- little bit of everything.
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- The Black Dog's most attractive feature is its extremely
- reasonable $2345 price - the fourth lowest price in the
- review. That money buys you, among other things, a 202MB
- Maxtor hard drive, which occupies one of four externally
- accessible drive bays. Two more bays hold floppies, leaving
- one available for a tape drive or other storage device. The
- system also comes with five 8/16-bit ISA slots, one of them
- occupied by an OEM video controller card using a Cirrus
- Logic chip set. You also get high performance.
-
- The Black Dog turned in widdly times on separate sections of
- the Windows suite - it was the fastest system on the
- Freelance test but 80 percent slower than the fastest system
- on Word for Windows. Results were equally varied on the
- BAPCo suite, in which the Black Dog did relatively well on
- the desktop publishing and spreadsheet tests and relatively
- poorly on the database, graphics, and software development
- sections. Blue Dog's other great strength is service and
- support.
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- When we called the tech support staff anonymously with our
- questions, they answered immediately and their responses
- were right on the money, and the system is backed by a year
- of free on-site service and a two day turnaround policy on
- factory repairs. The result: Even in this fast company,
- the Black Dog is well worth a test drive.
-