Dell Reduces Server Prices by Up to 47 Percent.Business Editors & High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000 Dell(tm) (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced that it has completed U.S. price reductions of 14 percent to 47 percent across its entire line of award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" PowerEdge(tm) servers, continuing to set the industry benchmark A performance test of hardware and/or software. There are various programs that very accurately test the raw power of a single machine, the interaction in a single client/server system (one server/multiple clients) and the transactions per second in a transaction processing system. for combined price, performance and value, and increasing the pressure on its competitors COMPETITORS, French law. Persons who compete or aspire to the same office, rank or employment. As an English word in common use, it has a much wider application. Ferriere, Dict. de Dr. h.t. in the server market. Customers can now purchase a PowerEdge server from Dell, the world's leading direct computer systems company and the world's second-largest provider in the Intel architecture-based server market(a), for as little as $1,182. Dell's most dramatic price reduction appears in the enterprise-level server segment with fully configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: , four-processor PowerEdge 6400 and PowerEdge 6450 servers receiving price reductions of 47 percent and 43 percent respectively. At the high-end high-end adj. Informal 1. Appealing to sophisticated and discerning customers: a high-end department store; high-end video equipment. 2. , customers can now purchase robust PowerEdge 8450 enterprise servers for as little as $13,955. "Dell's direct model and incredibly efficient supply chain, which measures inventory in minutes, not weeks, days or even hours, enables us to very quickly pass component savings along to our customers," said Kevin KEVIN Keepers of the Eternal Vigilance of the Islamic Nation (fictional, from White Teeth by Zadie Smith) Soelberg, Dell vice president for public sector and Americas A·mer·i·cas , the See America. enterprise marketing. "Our customers understand that they don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. need to overpay o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. for industry-leading performance, the latest, most relevant technology, and superior levels of customer service. Dell has a long history of delivering it all at a great price."
Sample Minimum PowerEdge Server Configurations and Prices
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Model Configuration Before After % Decrease
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PowerEdge 1300 Pentium(R)III 700 MHz $1,817 $1,182 35 %
/ 64 MB memory / 9 GB
hard-drive / three-year
next business day service
contract
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PowerEdge 2400 Pentium III 733 MHz $2,869 $2,069 28 %
with 256 K cache / 128 MB
memory / 9 GB hard-drive /
4 bay backplane /
three-year next business
day service contract
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PowerEdge 2450 Pentium III 733 MHz with $3,624 $2,675 26 %
256 K cache / 128 MB
memory 9 GB hard-drive /
three-year next business
day service contract
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PowerEdge 4400 Pentium III Xeon(tm) 800 $4,718 $3,818 19 %
MHz with 256 K cache / 128
MB memory / 9 GB hard-drive
/ Intel(R)Pro 100 NIC / 8
bay backplane / three-year
next business day service
contract
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PowerEdge 6400 Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz $7,798 $6,398 18 %
with 512 K
cache / 256 MB memory / 9
GB SCSI hard-drive / Intel
Pro 100 NIC card / 8 bay
backplane / three-year next
business day service
contract
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PowerEdge 6450 Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz $7,921 $6,821 14 %
with 512 K cache / 256 MB
memory / 9 GB hard-drive /
Intel Pro 100 NIC card
/ rack rails / three-year
next business day service
contract
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PowerEdge 8450 Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz $20,006 $13,955 30 %
with 1 MB cache / 256 MB
memory / 9 GB hard-drive /
Intel Pro 100 NIC with
adaptive load balancing /
rack rails / three-year
next business day service
contract
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PowerEdge Server Configurations with Price Reductions
of 43 percent and 47 percent
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Model Configuration Before After % Decrease
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PowerEdge 6400 4 Pentium(R)III 700 MHz / $29,195 $15,341 47 %
1 GB memory / 18 GB
hard-drive / 128 K RAID
controller / Intel Pro 100
NIC / 6 bay backplane /
three-year next business
day service contract
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PowerEdge 6450 4 Pentium III 700 MHz $31,446 $18,042 43 %
with 1 MB cache / 2 GB
memory / 18 GB hard-drive /
128 K RAID controller /
Intel Pro 100 NIC / rack
rails / three-year next
business day service
contract
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