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BM Corp. recently released its latest Black Beauty: the IntelliStation Z Pro Workstation with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0. In our testing, the Z Pro was so fast that we initially thought it was a dualprocessor system. But with only one of Intel Corp.'s new 450 MHz Xeon processors and a price of less than $5,500, the Z Pro is an ideal choice for government users involved with computer-aided design, multimedia or other power-hungry applications.
The Z Pro is one of the fastest computers we've ever tested. We ran the Viewperf 3-D graphics benchmark on it and found that the single-processor Z Pro has almost double the performance of dual-processor 300 and 333 MHz Pentium II workstations we tested last year [FCW, March 2,1998]. The single-processor Z Pro had a Viewperf score of 64.24 frames/sec.
When we ran the SYSmark/NT 4.0 office applications benchmark, the Z Pro blew away...