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In article <1992Apr6.031328.5486@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
>In article <1992Apr3.044708.260@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>  
>bhead@hfs.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Head) writes:
>>  Andrew Loewenstern writes
>>  > In article <95965@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> info@dellunix.dell.com (Info  
>>  Account)  
>>  > writes:
>>  > >  
>>  > >                 NEW DELL MODELS MAKE 50-MEGAHERTZ POWER
>>  > >                    AFFORDABLE FOR MAINSTREAM PC USERS
>>  > Sounds like this puppy was almost designed for NeXTstep 486!  Prices start  
>at  
>>  > $4599.  If that's with a monitor, some RAM, and a hard-drive, it's a  
>pretty  
>>  > good deal.  Especially since it runs a 50-mhz internally.
>>  > 
>>  > 
>>  
>>  I saw an ad on the back of PC-Mag quoting a price of $2999 for 50MHz-486  
>Dell
>>  (I believe comes with 14in colour).

>Yes, but the newly announced Dell is a 486 EISA with direct-to-bus video.  I am  
>willing to be the $2999 486 you saw was an ISA box.  Big difference.

The comp.newprod posting that spurred this thread was for i486DX2 50MHz machines
with 1024x768 VGA, which start at $2799 for ISA machines, more for EISA.

The processor direct graphics product, DGX, based on the "JAWS" prototype shown
at Fall Comdex and January Uniforum/NeXT Expo, was formally announced today.  
I've sent the press release to comp.newprod.  Two key excerpts:

	     The Dell PowerLine 450DE/2 DGX will support up to 1280 x
	1024 resolution with 256 colors and high color modes of up to
	64,000 colors at 1152 x 900 resolution.  The system also supports
	ergonomic refresh rates of up to 72Hz.

	     The Dell PowerLine 450DE/2 DGX is scheduled to ship in May
	and includes a 32-bit EISA (Extended Industry Standard
	Architecture) bus.  Pricing for the system starts at $5,499
	including four-megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM),
	expandable to 96MB; 128-kilobytes (K) of secondary cache memory;
	2MB of video RAM; a 3.5-inch, 1.44MB or 5.25-inch, 1.2MB diskette
	drive; an 80MB hard disk drive; and a 16-inch, high-performance
	Dell Graphics Performance Display (GPD) monitor.
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