February 1997 Issue, copyright 1997, Canada Computer Paper Inc.

Table 1

COMPUCONDAIWA DARIUS DATA TRAIN EMPAC AZURA EXPRESS MICRO HEWLETT PACKARD VECTRA 500IBM S78
Processor Pentium 200 MHzPentium 200
MHz		 Pentium 200 MHz Pentium 200 MHz Pentium 200 MHzPentium 200 MHzPentium 200 MHzPentium 200 MHz
Cache size 512K pipeline256K pipeline 512K pipeline 512K pipeline 512K pipeline512K pipeline256K256K pipeline
RAM 32 MB EDO32 MB EDO 32 MB EDO 32 MB EDO 32 MB SDRAM32 MB EDO32 MB32 MB EDO
Video card Matrox Millennium Matrox Millennium Diamond Stealth 3D ATI Mach64 Diamond Stealth64 Matrox Millennium Matrox Millennium ATI 3D Rage
Video memory 4 MB WRAM 2 MB WRAM 4 MB EDO 2 MB DRAM 2 MB EDO 4 MB WRAM 2 MB WRAM 2 MB SGRAM
Monitor None None None None None None None 15-inch
Sound card Sound Blaster 32 Sound Blaster 32 Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster 16 None Sound Blaster AWE64 Sound Blaster16 MWave
Hard drive Seagate 4.3
GB Ultra
SCSI		 Western Digital
2.5 GB
EIDE		 Fujitsu
1.7 GB
EIDE		 Quantum
2.1 GB EIDE		 Seagate 2.5
GB EIDE		 Quantum Atlas 4.5
GB Ultra Wide SCSI		 Quantum 2.5
GB EIDE		 IBM 3.2 GB EIDE
SCSI card Adaptec 2940UW None None None None Adaptec 2940UW None None
CD-ROM drive speed Panasonic 12x Panasonic 12x Sony 8x Panasonic Panasonic 12x Panasonic 10x changer 8x 8x
Modem None USR 28.8K
faxmodem		 USR 33.6K
faxmodem		 33.6K
faxmodem		 33.6K faxmodem Digicom
33.6K
faxmodem		 None 33.6K
faxmodem
System BIOS Award Award Award Award Award Award Phoenix IBM
Plug and Play support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Operating system Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95 Windows 95 Windows 95 Windows 95 Windows 95 Windows 95 Windows 95
Extras None Speakers Speakers Speakers None Matrox MPEG XL add-on None Cordless mouse, Joystick
WINDOWS BENCHMARKS
Desktop Publishing 180 136 137 141 151 182 132 140
Desktop graphics 172 145 178 170 176 173 142 188
Desktop presentation 179 157 155 155 161 180 146 159
Word processing 168 149 145 146 159 172 139 146
Spreadsheet 182 172 153 143 152 186 143 161
Database 161 141 148 145 158 166 137 139
Sysmark 32 171 155 151 148 159 174 141 154
Contact 604-279-9686 905-940-2889 403-640-0002 905-712-2000 800-863-6722 905-479-1443 800-387-3867 800-465-7999
Internet contact www.
compucon.com		 www.
serviceworks.
com		 www.empac.com www.aiei.com www.hp.com www.pc.
ibm.com
Suggested retail price $4,535 $2,390 $2,988 $2,799 $2,199 $5,799 $4,435 $4,999
Warranty 3 years 2 years 3 years 2 years 3 years 5 years 3 years 3 years
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