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Three new systems make the midrange chart this month. The new number one, Micro Express's inexpensive Athlon-550-equipped MicroFlex- 550B is faster than many machines on our power chart. Like IBM's PC 300GL it uses the new PC-133 SDRAM. The PC 300GL--the first PC we've tested to use the Via chip set--debuts in eighth place. NEC's new PowerMate ES5250-500k, a PIII-500 with Intel's BX chip set closes out the chart at number ten.
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03. Quantex M500
WHATS_HOT: You'd be hard-pressed to find a better-appointed multimedia powerhouse. The 6X DVD-ROM drive, Aureal Vortex2 sound card, and Joytech S3 Savage4 graphics board make the M500 a capable authoring station. And it's fine for watching movies, thanks to the accompanying 19-inch DiamondTron flat CRT monitor.
WHATS_NOT: Quantex's warranty on the M500 covers labor for just one year. In our anonymous calls to Quantex's tech support line, representatives frequently gave incomplete answers to our test questions.
WHAT_ELSE: The M500's PC WorldBench 98 score of 230 is average for a Pentium III-500 system running Windows 98. Quantex throws in an Iomega Zip 100 drive.
BEST_USE: The M500 makes a fast presentation system or a choice executive workstation for the Big Cheese.
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FEATURES: PC WorldBench score of 230, Pentium III-500, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 13GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98, Joytech S3 Savage4 graphics board with 16MB of RAM, 17X-48X CD-ROM drive, V.90 modem, Iomega Zip 100 drive.
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