Michael Bresnahan wrote: > > Dell will sell me a Dimension 4100 with 133Mhz SDRAM and a ATA-66 hard > drive for $2178. For $400 more, they will sell me a Dimension XPS B > with RDRAM and a ATA-100 hard drive. Can you tell me what the extra > $400 buys me? How much better is RDRAM over SDRAM and ATA-100 over > ATA-66? I've heard good things about DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM systems. Essentially the same effect as getting RDRAM (you get 1.5 or 2 bits/cycle passed over a data line), but I hear it's much cheaper/easier to make. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they're on the market yet, and you have to be willing to go with an AMD Athlon instead (oh the horror! </sarcasm> ;-). -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Zen T-Shirt: / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Enlightenment Available \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) -- Enquire Within. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]