The last few model years’ worth of new desktop computers have gotten exponentially faster than those released in the previous 10 years. It had been difficult to quantify the performance improvements which had become available to faculty and staff who were considering purchasing new PCs. I wrote this article to do exactly that.

First published: May 16, 2012

URL to live article: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/DellModelBenchmarks