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Conference mvblab::alphaserver_4100

Title:AlphaServer 4100
Moderator:MOVMON::DAVISS
Created:Tue Apr 16 1996
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:648
Total number of notes:3158

494.0. "128Mb mem costs more than 512Mb mem?" by CXXC::REINIG (This too shall change) Fri Feb 14 1997 20:28

From VTX price

                   U.S. Price List
            SYSTEM Prices as of: 14-FEB-1997

DN-51HAA-CA  ASVR 4100 5/400 DRW WNT 128    48,040.00  Standard Price
DN-51HAA-EA  ASVR 4100 5/400 DRW WNT 512    45,520.00  Standard Price
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494.1is that a problem?TROOA::MSCHNEIDERmartin.schneider@tro.mts.dec.comSat Feb 15 1997 13:1212
    No 128 MB does not cost more than 512MB of memory, BUT a packaged
    system with 128MB costs more than a packaged system with 512MB.
    
    The Jan 8 repricing affected only selected systems ... specifically
    those with larger memory configs dropped significantly.
    
    Our Canadian price file shows the same thing... cheaper to buy a 512 MB
    model.  Not that you CANNOT buy a 128MB 4100 5/466.
    
    Message is that 128MB config is not the choice to make.
    
    
494.2nopeCXXC::REINIGThis too shall changeMon Feb 17 1997 13:004
    It's not a problem for me.  I thought there might be an error in the
    pricing information.  Apparantly not.
    
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494.3here a gig, there a gigJULIET::HATTRUP_JAJim Hattrup, Santa Clara, CAWed Feb 19 1997 00:3510
    I belive the 128MB system is also being 'retired', as in not actively
    managed - and probably not in the 'latest' Systems and Options Catalog,
    etc.
    
    The above combination, plus the previously mentioned repricing (512MB
    systems and module reduction (I think the 128MB options were reduced
    also - just not 'old' systems using them, in this case the system
    wasn't really old, but...))  resulted in the strange pricing.
    
    This happens with a lot of our 'packaged configs' over time.
494.4Fastest load in the saddlePERFOM::HENNINGThu Feb 20 1997 08:214
    The 128mb modules are a bit faster than the 512mb modules - around 10%.
    SPEC tests use them.  
    
    Rawhide, please don't round up them fast critters and "retire" them.