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- Hungry Lion HL-486d model African Lion, Hungry Lion Corporation
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- Like the Blue Bird, the Hungry Lion won a Best Buy in our
- February systems review, but among its peers it doesn't earn
- any bragging rights. Nonetheless, the details that made the
- Hungry Lions last month still earn it some big points.
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- At just $2340, the Hungry Lion is the third cheapest PC
- here. Yet it more than holds its own when it comes to
- performance. It came in just 14 percent slower than the
- fastest system by posting decent times on the Windows tests
- and by scoring well on every section of the BAPCo suite, The
- result is one of the best price/performance ratios in the
- review. The Hungry Lion' speed is due in part to the
- integrated Cirrus Logic video accelerator chip and the 256K
- external cache.
-
- All this performance is packed into an attractive compact
- case that, not surprisingly, sacrifices some expandability.
- You get only two externally accessible drive bays, both of
- them occupied by floppies; to add a tape backup or CD ROM
- drive, you'll have to find an external model. The only free
- drive bay is inside the case and could be used for a second
- hard drive to bolster the relatively puny 116 MB QUANTUM
- disk that comes standard. Thanks to the high degree of
- integration on the motherboard, all four ISA slots are free.
- Hungry Lion backs this system with a nice service and
- support package that includes a year of free on site service
- and toll free technical support (even on weekends).
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- We applaude the Hungry Lion for its great price and
- performance. If you can live with limited expandability and
- want a cheap, fast system, the Hungry Lion is well worth a
- closer look.