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bdp@interaccess.com (Brian Peterson) wrote:
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>ahh, yes. but why buy a brand new PPro computer if you are going to hold it
>down to 16 bit apps? yes, the PPro runs 16 bit apps about 20% slower than
>a P5 at the same speed.

Here is one persons perspective on a PPRO that he has taken DELIVERY on.

I had a similar problem before I purchased my Dimension Pro200n. I originally
planned on purchasing a P166s with 32MB of RAM, but after a little bit of
thinking and doing some research on the Pros, I decided to go with the Pro.
There really isn't a large premium and the Dell Pro200n is really fast.

The new Pros are based on the Natoma motherboard that fixes the PCI bug and 
uses EDO/ECC memory.

Subjectively, the machine is really, really fast. My old machine was a Micron
Pentium-90 (from 1994) with 24MB RAM with a #9 GXE64 Pro video card. 

Anyway, here are some stats that I compiled when I benchmarked my machine:
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**Please read notes first**

Winbench 96
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			XPS Pro 200n	Top P150/166 Scores	Dell XPS P166s
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CPUMark 16	    :	352		335			333
CPUMark 32	    :	540		345			335	
Disk WinMark 96	    :	1040		1280			1160
Graphics WinMark 96 :	27.9		36.3 (#9 Imagine)	34.5 (#9 Imagine)

Wintune 95
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Dhrystone	    :	419 MIPS
Whetstone           :	112 MFLOPS


Notes:
(1) My Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n has 40MB RAM, 8x NEC CD-ROM,
    2.5GB hard drive, #9 771 Motion 2MB/VRAM running Windows 95.
    This machine has an Intel Natoma 440FX motherboard that uses
    EDO RAM.
(2) Scores for 150/166 Pentiums are INDIVIDUAL top scores from 
    PC Mag (June 25, 1996)
(3) Test was conducted at 1024x768, 8 bit color @ 75Hz.
(4) Top Disk Winmark was for a SCSI hard drive system.
(5) Top Graphics Winmark was for a #9 Imagine 128 S.2. I chose not
    to purchase this card because of slow DOS speed for games.

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Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Ben



about that corvette analogy.....(HUH) ?