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Sahara PC

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Sahara PC 

Price:

Rs 11,500
Key Specs:

Celeron D 2.13 GHz, 845GV based MSI motherboard, Samsung 52x CD ROM, 128MB DDR333 RAM, internal modem 
Contact:

Sahara Computers & Electronics. Tel: 1600 180 7235. E-mail:

info@saharacomputers.co.in 



RQS# E61 or SMS 131261 to 9811800601

The

Sahara


10k PC (actually a thousand and a half mre) has a fairly high-end hardware as

compared to the products we reviewed before in this range. It features a Celeron

D 2.13 GHz processor with 256MB L2 Cache, 128MB of DDR333 memory from Samsung

and a 40GB 7200RPM drive.

The machine came loaded with RedHat Linux WS. While using

the machine, everything seemed to be running just fine and with minimal lag.

With multiple windows of Mozilla, Evolution (mail client) GNumeric

(spreadsheet), the system ran without any lags. The problem came up when we

tried running OpenOffice which is  known

to be a memory hog, and the system took forever to open even a simple word

document! We just fail to understand why vendors are shipping un-optimised OS

with machines that don't have hardware to handle heavy software. We tested the

machine by running AB Word on it and it ran just fine. So if you buy this

machine, we suggest you do away with OpenOffice and go in for other lighter

office suite. Overall, we are very



impressed with this machine.

Sahara


has used top notch parts from vendors such as MSI, Samsung and Intel. They have

proved that just because it is a low cost PC, it need not be compromised upon.

Bottom Line: While

Sahara


has used fairly decent hardware, they should bundle an optimized Linux version

to make it perform  better. Switching

off the un-necessary services running in the background gave little performance

difference, in terms of general usage, between this machine and some high-end

hardware we have seen.

Varun Dubey

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