Article: Computer Sales Professional 486DX2-50. (Hardware Review) (one of 10 evaluations of Intel 80486DX2-based microcomputers in '486DX2: 50MHz Speed on a 33MHz Budget') (Evaluation)

It might be the slightly wrinkled and crooked decal on the front-panel display containing the power, turbo, and hard drive access lights and the reset and turbo buttons. It might be the bold LED speedometer on that front panel, which lights up with the number 050 whether the computer's running at turbo speed or not. It might be the ill-fitting case, which took 15 minutes of hugging and shoving to reinstall after opening up the machine for a look at the mother-board.

It might be any number of things about Computer Sales Professional's DX2 mini-tower, but in the end, the sum total left us unimpressed. What we have here is a low-cost clone.

The low-cost ...

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