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Dell OptiPlex GX260

The Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX260 is a highly scalable desktop, spanning the needs of corporate and institutional users in various environments ranging from value to performance. Where obsolescence protection and optimal price performance are critical, the GX260 offers the latest stable technologies in highly serviceable chassis.

The GX260 is designed for those users who have come to rely on the stability and manageability of OptiPlex desktops in order to maintain low total cost of ownership.

Tomorrow's technologies today

The OptiPlex GX260 will allow organizations to get the full benefit of tomorrow's technologies today without paying a high price. Large companies and institutions can transition to the next generation Intel® Pentium® processors and utilize technologies such as Gigabit networking and USB 2.0, in order to support future com- puting needs, protect their investment and help reduce the total cost of ownership.

Networking

The GX260 introduces Intel Gigabit networking1 to the desktop. Gigabit provides improved networking per- formance over 10/100 with increased network throughput. GX260 Gigabit networking optimizes the end users flexibility and provides obsolescence protection. Gigabit is backwards compatible with 10/100 and can be used with existing CAT-5 network cabling. Benefits include rapid recovery model for reduced down time, faster backups enabling data-to-server backups and imaging over the network for greater IT productivity, all helping to lower TCO.

As part of Gigabit networking, the GX260 will also incorporate a new standards based alerting feature, Alert Standard Format (ASF). ASF is a new standard for OS absent alerting, replacing existing proprietary interfaces with a single common alerting interface. Regardless of OS state, power off, sleep mode etc, notification of error conditions can be provided to the IT administrator.

Scalability…

The GX260 is available in three chassis sizes and supports Celeron® and Intel Pentium 4 processors. Regardless of chassis or processor, the GX260 can be easily deployed with a common software image in a mix of legacy-full, reduced or legacy-free options with LegacySelect 2.0. GX260 can be configured with a broad range of peripherals including multiple graphics cards, RMSD devices and up to 1GB memory.

Superior performance

GX260 offers Intel Pentium 4 processors with 400MHz and next generation 533MHz front side bus as well as DDR SDRAM, maximizing bandwidth and helping improve overall system performance. In addition, the GX260 now supports USB 2.0 for external peripheral performance boost. New integrated Intel Extreme® Graphics deliver excellent price/performance for basic computing with the option to configure with higher-end perform- ance graphics cards.

Simplified desktop manageability…

OptiPlex continues to drive management standardization with CIM-based solutions that enable management of a broader range of devices across the enterprise. OpenManage Client Instrumentation (OMCI) v7.0 now also includes a 1:1 client management console.

Also new is OpenManage Client Administrator (OMCA) v1.0., a leveraged co-development in partnership with Altiris. This is an optional integrated software management suite for remote image deployment, software delivery and system migrations as well as inventory management.

Service and support

The OptiPlex GX260 comes with 3 years Next Business Day On-site2service as standard.

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