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Workstation - Mini Tower - RAM: 128 MB - CD-ROM more

The Compaq Affordable Performance (AP) Professional Workstation family is ideal for engineering and design professionals or for financial applications, and can be easily connected...
more...either to a small workgroup or a large corporate distributed enterprise. The range combines the performance and purpose of traditional, proprietary workstations with the benefits of standards-based computing. The AP500 gives you what it takes to bring you the most outstanding performance form a workstation. Fast processing, multiple expansion options including slots, bays, drives, and memory, cutting edge graphics, and competitive pricing all combine to make one of the most full-featured workstations available. This level of computing power gives your programmers, engineers and graphic artists the capabilities to produce their best work. The AP500 workstation flawlessly combines pinnacle performance and expandability. If your company needs a good graphics workstation with top-notch reliability and Compaq's renowned support, consider the AP500 the right investment.

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Big Bang for your Buck

A review by duffer on Compaq Professional AP500 - PII 450 MHz
July 13th, 2000

Author's product rating: Compaq Professional AP500 - PII 450 MHz - rated by duffer

Speed	Fast
Design	Satisfactory
Manufacturer Support	Satisfactory
Ease of use	Easy
Value For Money	Excellent

Advantages:	delivery, price
Disadvantages:	poxy printer

Recommend to potential buyers:

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After assessing a number of machines and offers in the computer press I eventually placed an order with Polar Technology in Bedford. For £860 I got a celeron 533 with 64mb RAM, 10Gb Hard drive, 16mb Voodoo3 graphix card, DVD-ROM drive, 17" monitor, mustek scanner and a Hewlett Packard deskjet 640c printer. The system was delivered exactly when expected and upon connecting the various bits of kit together (thank you Maplin - why don't companies include effing USB leads?) was very pleased to find the system already fairly well configured with windows 98 as the OS. The scanner installed fine but the printer arrived without software, which I had to source form the net (flipping HP.....). The supplied Lotus SmartSuite software was a nice gimme, I suppose, but MS Office sets the standard and is so far ahead of SmartSuite I would have preferred to recieve that. For the price, the machine is great. Would have preferred a better printer..... but there you go. A good company to do business with.