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Great Lakes brings basic PC to fed market
Testing by Pat McClung Great Lakes Electronics Distributing Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., is making its first foray into the government market this year with its recently awarded General Services Administration schedule. Great Lakes builds custom PCs and servers using Microsoft Corp.certified components an
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Wipe Out! is first aid for CDs
You've probably experienced it at least once: You put your CDROM in the drive and it doesn't load. When you examine it and discover that the culprit is a scratch in the CD's surface, you figure it's a lost cause and pitch it in the trash. Thanks to Esprit Development Corp. , Flemington, N.J., this
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Meridian Data improves on a great product
With Snap! Server Version 2.0, Meridian has improved upon a product that was great in the first place.
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Notebook class of '99 earns high honors
Testing by Pat McClung You couldn't ask for much more from the notebook computer industry. Since the FCW Test Center's annual notebook roundup last August, vendors have improved nearly every aspect of their systems, from processor speeds and hard drive capacity to system weight and battery life - a
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Brother takes color printing on the road
Now that notebook computers let you take computing power on the road, what about printing power? Brother Industries Ltd. has come up with a handy, easytouse solution in the form of the MP21C color inkjet mobile printer. This little device weighs a mere 2 pounds, 8 ounces and measures only 2 inc
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500 MHz Pentium IIIs: Better than ever
Testing by Pat McClung and Andreas Uiterwijk The latest 500 MHz Pentium III PCs are fast, wellbuilt and easier to manage than ever. But the most intriguing new feature for government buyers is the unique serial number hardcoded into the processor. The serial number offers advantages to government
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Sub-$1,000 PCs defy expectations
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk While systems costing less than $1,000 have been available for more than a year, most government buyers have shied away because those machines lacked the processing power and capacity that agencies demand. Thanks to the Army's PC3 contract, open to all federal agencies
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Graphics Powerhouses
Last year, most socalled Windows NT workstations were little more than soupedup PCs. They just couldn't hold a candle to Unixclass machines. But what a difference a year makes. Today's NT workstations are screaming graphics performers, running applications created especially to take advantage of
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Printer power
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung Last year the big news in the network workgroup color printer market was price cuts [Government Best Buys, April 6, 1998]. This year we've found major improvements in print quality, speed and system design. The good news is that these improvements haven'
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Graphics powerhouses
Tested by Andreas Uiterwijk and Pat McClung When we last looked at Windows NT workstations [Government Best Buys, March 1998], we found that many vendors were billing soupedup PCs as workstations rather than offering true workstationclass machines. Those socalled workstations just could not comp
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Dual Pentium IIs Pack Power into Servers
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk And Chip Pettirossi If you are looking for a PC server with plenty of horsepower and storage space, a 450 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II dualprocessor system may be the answer. This class of workgroup servers is designed for file storage and data safety. However, the dual
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Fingerprint ID systems point to increased security
No longer the exclusive domain of science fiction, biometrics the use of physical traits or characteristics to identify a human being has entered the real world as a viable security option. Some of the most popular biometric systems today include fingerprint recognition, iris scanning, retina s
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Dual Pentium IIs pack power into servers
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk and Chip Pettirossi If you are looking for a PC server with plenty of horsepower and storage space, a 450 MHz Intel Corp. Pentium II dualprocessor system may be the answer. This class of workgroup servers is designed for file storage and data safety. However, the dual
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Ruggedized notebook packs power
If you need a notebook that can take a licking and keep on ticking, consider Panasonic Personal Computer Co.'s Toughbook 27.
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GSA awards $25 billion IT services pact
The General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service last week awarded its $25 billion information technology services and support contract to 10 vendors.
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Visio enhancements ease diagramming
Need to create businessoriented diagrams, timelines or flow charts? Consider Visio Corp.'s Visio Standard 5.0 and its Business Bonus Pack addition, which started shipping this fall.
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We Test Six Sensational Systems
The latest crop of desktop PCspowered by 450 MHz Pentium II processorsare winners, according to a recent product comparison conducted by the FCW Test Center. All six systems we tested scored above a 7.0 on our scale of 1 to 10. In fact, we'd recommend any one of these machines as a smart buy for state and local agencies.
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Meridian's Snap! Server makes network-attached storage simple
Testing by Chip Pettirossi Network storage is a hot commodity these days. With more data circulating on networks, servers are often overloaded and simply run out of space. In some cases, agencies just need a storage boost and don't want to fork over the money or take the time to install new ser
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New MetroBook packs features into tiny case
Imagine opening your daily planner, but instead of endless sheets of appointment pages, you have a keyboard, screen and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 98 at your fingertips. That's what you get with MetroBook Computer Corp.'s latest offering, a mininotebook called the SLT. For a notebook this small, th
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Six sensational systems
Testing by Andreas Uiterwijk For this comparison of the latest desktop PCs, it's a good thing the numbers singled out a winner although just barely because we would have had a hard time choosing.
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