Hardware Design Criteria
With the functional requirements determined, the next step was to establish design criteria for the Mainstream PC hardware. The facing page sidebar shows the relative priorities we assigned for our Mainstream PC. Your priorities may differ.
As you can see, this is a well-balanced system. Other than reliability, which we regard as critical for any system, all of the other criteria are of similar priority. Here’s the breakdown:
Table 3-1. DESIGN PRIORITIES
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Price |
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Reliability |
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Size |
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Noise level |
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Expandability |
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Processor performance |
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Video performance |
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Disk capacity/performance |
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- Price
Price is moderately important for this system, but ...
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