With its 450MHz Pentium III processor, 128MB of memory, a 16.8GB hard drive, DVD, and a 19-inch monitor, the Ultra Power makes for a great choice. According to Business Winstone 99, the Ultra Power PC trails our 500MHz reference system by a mere 10 percent. In fact, its 22.2 score is only about 13.5 percent behind the results we've seen from 550MHz Pentium III systems. Much of this is the result of the Ultra Power PC's outstanding graphics subsystem. The important contribution made by the system's KDS VS-19sn monitor is tough to ignore as well.
Text is crisp, and graphics are brilliant.
When you kick back with a DVD movie, courtesy of the 4.8x Toshiba SD-M1202 drive and Zoran's SoftDVD2 software, all that's needed is some popcorn. An available ISA slot and an open shared slot will let you migrate ISA cards from an older system. Two of the four PCI slots are occupied by the modem and sound card. Three of the four DIMM sockets are vacant, and the system can be swelled to 1GB of memory. Drive expansion is better than average, although Arrow has claimed most of the prime real estate.