Dell Cuts Prices On Precision Workstations By Up To 17 Percent

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, May 17, 1999

Entry-Level Workstation With Monitor Now Costs Less Than $1,700

Direct PC seller Dell Computer Corp. cut US prices on several configurations of its Precision WorkStations by as much as 17 percent earlier this month.

For example, a Precision WorkStation 210 with dual 450MHz Pentium III processors, 64MB of RAM, dual 6.4GB IDE hard disk drives, 17/40X CD-ROM drive, Windows NT and a Diamond Permedia2 8MB AGP graphics card, is now priced at $2,241, a reduction of 17 percent.

Prices for the entry-level Dell Precision WorkStation 210 now start at $1,668, including monitor. Dell also cut prices on the mid-range Precision WorkStation 410 by up to 15.5 percent and on the high-end Precision WorkStation 610 by up to 7.4 percent.

Dell was tied for the No. 1 position in the worldwide personal workstation market in 1998.

All of Dell's workstations are now dual-processor-capable; the product family consists of the Precision Workstation 210 and 410, based on the Pentium II or Pentium III processor, and the Precision WorkStation 610, based on the Pentium III Xeon processor.