Dell Launches Mobile Pentium 4-M Workstation; New Dell Precision M50 Offers Desktop Workstation Performance in a Mobile Package.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced U.S. availability of the Dell Precision Dell Precision is a line of workstation computers produced by Dell, Inc.. Current Dell Precision Desktop Models
Priced starting at $3,599(a), the Dell Precision M50 comes with the NVIDIA(R) Quadro(tm)4 500 Go GL graphics processing unit See GPU. and a single Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4-M processor at 1.8GHz, both of which fuel performance for high-end 3-D graphic operations like OpenGL(R) and DirectX(R) professional applications. It is designed for customers who need workstation hardware certification With ever dropping prices of hardware devices, the market for networking devices and systems is undergoing a kind of change that can be loosely termed as ‘generalization’. Big established enterprises like Cisco, Novell, Sun Microsystems etc. with independent software vendors in the computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive (CAD), engineering, digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. , geographic information systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to , computer animation, software development and financial analysis markets. "The Dell Precision M50 mobile workstation enables flexibility and portability for our simulation and analysis customers," says Sam Murgie, senior technical advisor at Ansys Inc. "Ansys 6.0 applications improve product development by modeling complex multiphysics interactions and require the horsepower horsepower, unit of power in the English system of units. It is equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute or 550 foot-pounds per second or approximately 746 watts. that the Dell Precision M50 delivers." Jon Beaulier, systems program manager at PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , a leading supplier of product development solutions, including Pro/Engineer, said the new mobile workstation provides graphics performance previously associated with desktop workstations. "The new Precision brings more portability and performance to serious CAD engineers." Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Adobe's graphics business unit, said his company's customers will benefit from the improved performance of the workstation. "With an Intel Pentium 4-M platform, additional memory support and integrated IEEE-1394, the new workstation and Adobe Premiere software provide an excellent professional, mobile digital video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. solution." The Dell Precision M50 complements Dell's line of Precision workstations by providing the same certification and support as the company's desktop workstations with the added benefit of mobility, Tim Mattox, Dell vice president of relationship client marketing, said. "This new product delivers the outstanding performance, high-end graphics, and flexibility our customers have come to expect from the world's preferred provider of workstation products," he said. Technical features of the Dell Precision Workstation M50 include: -- Mobile Intel Pentium 4-M Processor at 1.80GHz -- Intel Mobile 845MP Chipset; 400MHz Processor System Bus -- NVIDIA Quadro4 500 GoGL GPU with 64MB DDR graphics memory, 4X AGP support graphics controller -- Operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Windows 2000 Professional -- Memory configurations: 256, 512, 1024 MB PC2100 Double Data Rate SDRAM -- Hard drive options: 40 and 60GB(b) ATA-100, 5400 RPM -- Dell UltraSharp(tm) 15-inch TFT UXGA About Dell Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. (Nasdaq:DELL), the world's most preferred computer systems company, is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's revenue for the past four quarters totaled $31.2 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com. Dell, UltraSharp and Dell Precision are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. (a) All pricing, specifications and availability may change without notice. Taxes and shipping charges extra, and vary. Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. U.S. only. (b) For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes; accessible capacity varies with operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . |
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