Dell Delivers Fastest, Most Powerful OptiPlex Ever; New System Offers OptiPlex Stability, Pentium 4 Performance at Pentium III Prices

Business Wire, March 5, 2001

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001

Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced the OptiPlex(tm) GX400, its first Pentium(R) 4-powered desktop computer tailored specifically for corporate and institutional users.

Priced in line with Dell's Pentium III-based OptiPlex systems, the midnight-gray OptiPlex GX400 is the fastest and most powerful OptiPlex desktop system and is available immediately in the U.S. and Canada.

"By eliminating the price premium typically associated with new technology, we're enabling our corporate and institutional customers to easily and quickly begin their transition to Pentium 4 without sacrificing the stability, reliability and manageability that they expect from the OptiPlex line," said Jeff Clarke, vice president and general manager, OptiPlex line of business.

At the heart of the GX400 is the Intel Pentium 4 processor, the most powerful microprocessor ever featured in a Dell OptiPlex system. Featuring the Intel 850 chipset and Rambus memory, the GX 400 will initially be available with the Pentium(R) 4 processor at 1.3 and 1.4 GHz with 256KB Advanced Transfer Cache memory, up to 2 GB(1) RDRAM and hard drives and up to 40 GB(1) in capacity to meet the needs of the high-performance desktop computer users.

The OptiPlex GX400 features an award-winning, midnight gray OptiFrame(tm) mini-tower chassis designed for maximum expansion capacity and easy accessibility. The GX400 features integrated audio and supports a wide variety of AGP video and PCI audio options. Designed for maximum manageability, the OptiPlex GX400 also features Dell's LegacySelect Technology Control, which allows IT managers to enable or disable any combination of parallel, serial ports, and floppy drives to provide the right balance of functionality and IT control for each workgroup.

Immediately available in the U.S. and Canada, prices start at $1,299 for an OptiPlex GX400 that includes an Intel(R) Pentium 4 processor at 1.3 GHz, 128 MB PC600 RDRAM, 10 GB(1) hard disk drive, integrated 10/100 networking and audio, NVIDIA(R) TNT2 Pro 16MB AGP card, 1.44 MB floppy disk and CDROM drives. Complete product details can be found at www.dell.com/optiplex.> Dell Services can lower customers' cost of computing with a full suite of award-winning computing services including pre-sales consulting, deployment, and after-sale support. Dell's direct model affords customers a single point of accountability and customized access to electronic, remote and onsite support(2). Complete information is available at www.dell.com/services.> About Dell

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(1) For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes; total accessible

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