Re: New i5 Express Models

They appear to have "lost" a popular size machine with
this annoucement.

The "about" 50 employee company doesn't get much of a
deal with either machine.

The 515 is too small and not enough expansion and
the 525 is too expensive with in the P10 software group.

The 515 is really a replacement for the 150 crowd.

The folks that could fit in a older 600/30 "entry plus"
that ran $14,500 don't haver any where to go with this
announcement. The 515 is too small and the 525 is too big.

I may try to still order some of the older machines instead
of these newer ones. The per user cost is not clear until the
prices are announced on 4/20/07.




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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