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Re: Athena Dell GX 110 configuration change
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed May 9 18:44:58 2001
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: owls@MIT.EDU, Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen@MIT.EDU>, ryanf@MIT.EDU,
release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 May 2001 22:35:44 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:44:51 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Kathleen: Our agreement in principle was to roll the Athena config to
>> the "sweet spot" where the CPU was the fastest offered before the big
>> jump in price. Is 933 MHz that speed, or is the 1GHZ the right
>> number to tell people to buy?
It seems to me that this question is far more important for our
upcoming GX150 purchase than for any decision we make regarding the
GX110, which we only expect to be recommending for another 3 months or
so.
I'd recommend 2 courses of action:
1.) Have a 933 Mhz GX110 shipped to us as soon as possible; we should be
able to certify it without any difficulty by installing Athena on it.
2.) Price out various GX150 configurations to determine if the 1 GHz
machines we had been planning to order are still the correct choice.
This is much less urgent than 1.), and can wait until June, I believe.
I'm willing to deal with item 1 above, if people agree this is a
reasonable course of action.
Garry
