Compaq AlphaServer 1200 - Alpha 21164 533 MHz

Advantages: The versatile, convertible minitower allows desktop configuration
Disadvantages: None

...The low-cost, high-performance HP xw4200 Workstation combines revolutionary technologies from Intel® and new graphics technology from leading graphics providers with HP's reliability, support, and 20+ years of workstation technical and graphical expertise. Engineered to economically meet your business demands, the HP xw4200 is a workstation that will evolve with your ever-changing needs. Intel's 925X next-generation high-end performance chipset for Intel Pentium® 4 processors delivers fast dual-channel DDR-2 533 MHz memory, reducing power consumption and increasing data throughput. Intel EM64T is available on select configurations of the HP xw4200 Workstation with the Intel Pentium® 4 processor. Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology will expand addressable memory space to 16TB, aiding in the design and manipulation of huge data sets... Read review

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Advantages: great portability
Disadvantages: Problems with this hp model

...Notebook speed issue I think data bus speed is the culprit here. The Front Side Bus (FSB) is the data channel that connects the processor, other chips, memory, and the video circuitry. The motherboard in this HP laptop runs at a pokey 100MHz FSB. A comparably-priced Toshiba (A45-S121) runs at 266Mhz FSB using the same 2.8GHz Celeron. The processor can support up to a 400MHz FSB. See this HP laptop series specs at --------------- To date, all Celeron 2.8GHz processors have had on-die L2 cache of only 128KB. The Pentium 4 versions have L2 cache of up to 512KB and run at a 533MHz FSB. This includes HP ZE5xxx series notebooks built with Pentium 4 CPUs. Lastly, when running on battery, the power saving setup of most notebooks will throttle back the CPU speed to increase battery life. You might be able to override this by adjusting... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Cost and very Reliable.
Disadvantages: on board graphics card replace it with a 3dfx card

...k6 amd 500mhz processor 64mb memory 8mb on borad agb graphics card 8gb hard disk 512 cache Microsoft wheel mouse DVD Drive 3.5 Floppy Drive jbl pro speakers for surround sound 15 inch Monitor Compaq coumputers are built to last they may not have the most up to date and fastest equipment inside but they will last forever. You also receive lots of software titles like Microsoft word and Microsoft works. Compaq also offer free software, from they web page via a points system. This works as follows, depending on what computer you buy you get awarded a number of points. You then go to there online web page and trade your points for different software titles. The model has now been replaced by a compaq 7474 with the only differnece being the processor being a k6 amd 533mhz. The cost is about £799 from pc-world and with that you... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful