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- From: tclark@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Terry Clark)
- Subject: Re:DX@/66 benchmarks for Gateway, Dell, Zeos
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.035139.5747@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:51:39 GMT
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- >From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
- >Subject: DX2/66 benchmarks for Gateway, Zeos, Dell?
-
- >I'd like some hard numbers on the performance of these 3 machines, such as
- >from PC Benchmarks 7.0 (6.0 would do).
-
- In the Hands-On Systems review of 486/66 MHz computer
- systems in the premier edition (Feb.) of Windows Sources they checked the
- Gateway, a Dell DE/2, a Dell SE/2 and 11 others. THe Gateway put out 20
- MegaWinMarks (pixels/sec) to the video and 470K bytes/sec to the hard drive.
- The Dells di8 and 4 MegaWinMarks anrespectively and 380K bytes/sec. each.
- No ZEOS machines.
- This got me to thinking that there needs to be a method of indicating the
- value of one system in comparison to another. In these times of tight
- finances it is usually money that is the final factor in determining which
- system a user buys. To this end why not tabulate
- a Winmark/$ figure for these tests to give an idea of how much
- performance your dollar will buy from the various vendors.
-
- I did some quick figuring and came up with:
- >(from data presented in the article, you will have to read it for
- full details, divided by the systems cost)
-
- Graphics Winmarks/$ Harddisk Winmarks/$
- Ares 3758 60.4
- Compaq 2160 36.6
- Compudyne 3691 91.2
- Dell DE 1003 46.9
- Dell SE 520 40.3
- Edge 2739 28.5
- ExpoTech 2984 137.1
- Gateway 6156 142.5 *
- HP 1378 64.0
- IBM Mod 77 1418 53.9
- Insight 2420 78.5 *
- Swan 1987 54.4
- Tristar 3818 67.8 *
- Zenith 1662 52.9
-
- * Editors Choices
-
-
- Now admittedly this sort of comparison suffers from all the other
- problems any comparison study has, including no 2 systems are exactly
- the same. But all else being reasonably similar it does suggest where a
- reader might get the most for their money.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Terry Clark P.A.-C. tclark@weeg.uiowa.edu
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