T1220, T1440, T1860, T1862 and T2080 Desktop PCs: eMachines. (new products).www.emachines.com, Hardware, $399 to $749 Full-featured systems from eMachines span a variety of education needs, from everyday computing to high-performance multimedia. The latest models include BigFix software, providing schools with a proactive technical support system to help ensure continuing maintenance and performance of the system. The economy T1220, at $399, has an Intel Celeron 1.20 GHz processor, 128 MB SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , 20-GB hard drive, 56K V. 92 ready fax/modem, a 48x CD-ROM drive, keyboard, mouse and speakers. The T2080, at $749, comes with an AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 512 MB DDR, 80 GB hard drive, same modem, 32x CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. and a 16x DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. drive, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, keyboard, wheel mouse and amplified speakers. The three models in between vary in RAM and disk space, and all but the T12200 have CD-RW drives. CIRCLE #535 FOR INFORMATION |
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