Re: New i5 Express Models

I'm more than a little disappointed. My organization had been waiting for this announcement -- we had previously been considering a 520 system, and wanted to wait for this announcement because it was going to make the i5 competitively priced! It didn't.

With the features/users we need, the 520 is cheaper. In fact, the 515 can't even support all of the peripherals we want (not enough expansion slots) so even if we wanted to pay the premium price for the faster system, it really can't be done.

The price on the 525 puts it completely out of the picture, at least, with the features/users we require.

Yes, I'm disappointed. IBM really isn't offering anything new or exciting with these systems, at least that I can fathom! The "IBM is now friendly to SMBs" appears to just be a marketing gimmick, not an actual change in IBM's strategy.


Jon Paris wrote:
> Am I the only one who is a little disappointed by the recent
> announcements?
>
> From earlier statements by Mark Shearer and others I had been
> expecting to see something oriented towards the smaller developer.
> Maybe $5 - 6K or so. As best I can tell the new ones are a minimum of
> $8K and the configuration at that level more than a little memory and
> disk constrained.
>
> Maybe I'm mismembering, but surely there have been model 270s in this
> price category before?
>
> What am I missing guys? Right now it looks as if my hopes of owning
> a system are back on hold again.
>
> Jon Paris Partner400
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