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By Serdar Yegulalp
Micron's Millennia Pro Plus comes with a little of everything-and a lot of speed-for the serious power user or network administrator.
The system is crammed with a whopping 64MB of EDO RAM and a colossal 2GB Seagate SCSI hard drive.
A BusLogic FlashPoint LT PCI Fast/Wide SCSI-2 card governs all the SCSI devices in the system, and a Creative Labs AWE32 pumps out pro-quality digital audio and CD music. The snazziest add-in by far is an internal SCSI Jaz removable hard disk, which along with the Imagine 128 Series 2 graphics controller makes this system a strong candidate for graphics, video or publishing applications.
To complement all this power, Windows NT 3.51 comes preloaded. The only included application software is Microsoft Office 95. The 8X SCSI CD-ROM drive made installing Office a breeze.
Our Word and Excel macros completed in average times of 11 and 16 seconds, respectively. Wintune reported an awesome 416MIPS and 25Mpixels per second video throughput for the Millennia. Although the system's uncached disk throughput was an anemic 0.71MB per second, the cached score was through the roof at 112MBps! All these results were echoed in other applications as well-CPU-intensive graphics apps blazed along with nary a pause.
Micron's own 17-inch, 0.26mm-dot-pitch, Energy Star-compliant monitor looked bold and bright, but doesn't have on-screen programming.
Getting inside the system case involved undoing one thumbscrew.
All in all, the Millennia Pro Plus is a powerhouse.
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Micron Millennia Pro Plus
Price: $5,147
Pros: RAM; performance; Jaz drive
Cons: No modem or network adapter
Micron Electronics
800-243-7615, 208-893-3434
WinMag Box Score: 4.0
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