CD-ROM

My Micron Pentium 133 laptop with 8x CD-ROM is usually pretty perky, but scrolling through the TOC tested my patience; it seemed too slow for use in "clinical time." There is no rank ordering of anticipated utility of search results: a search match in a reference carries as much weight as in a section title.

Compaq's new 2120 does not include a monitor but does come with a 150MHz processor, 24Mb of memory, a 33.6Kbps modem, 2.0Gb hard drive, 8x CD-ROM drive, integrated stereo speakers and power and volume controls.

Intel Pentium 120MHz CPU, upgradable 31-inch VGA color monitor 16MB RAM, expandable 850MB hard disk 8x CD-ROM drive 1.44MB 3.5-inch floppy drive Wireless keyboard w/trackpad Wireless Field Mouse 28.8 internal fax modem three PCI slots two ISA slots one shared bus slot one serial port & one parallel port

Minimum system requirements include Windows 95/98; 166 MHz Pentium processor; 16 MB RAM; 130 MB available hard drive space; 16-bit color graphics video card; 8x CD-ROM drive; 16-bit Windows-compatible stereo sound card; mouse and speakers.

Each unit comes standard with two 8x CD-ROM drives.

Pricing starts at $8,295 for an eight-drive tower system with 8x CD-ROM drives.

"We are showing that we are likely to be out of 8X by the end of the first quarter." LG Electronics does not supply a 12X CD-ROM drive; the company's 8X CD-ROM drives start at $129 suggested retail.