| Bravo Analysis: System Configuration Levels | |||||||
| LEVEL: | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| CPU | Cel 300 | Cel 500 | Cel 1G | Cel 1.8G | Cel D 3G | P4 3.4G HT | P4 3.8G HT |
| MEM | 64M | 128M | 256M | 512M | 512M | 1G | 2G |
| HD/CF | 256M CF | 512M CF | 4G HD | 40G HD | 80G HD | 160G HD | 300G HD |
| O.S. | 98 LT | 2K LT | XP LT | XP Pro | XP Pro | XP Pro | XP Pro |
| Web Browsing | |||||||
| HTML Text/Graphics | |||||||
| SSL | |||||||
| Active-X | |||||||
| Java VM | |||||||
| Flash/Shockwave | |||||||
| RSS | |||||||
| eMail & FAX | |||||||
| Webmail | |||||||
| Outlook Express | |||||||
| OWA | |||||||
| Outlook/Exchange | |||||||
| FAX Send/Receive | |||||||
| IM/Voice/Video & Collaboration | |||||||
| Instant Messenging | |||||||
| PPH VoIP | |||||||
| Skype/Yahoo Voice | |||||||
| WebEx/Live Meeting | |||||||
| Video Conference | |||||||
| General Productivity Tools | |||||||
| Word | 97 | 2000 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 |
| Excel | 97 | 2000 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 | 2003 |
| PowerPoint | |||||||
| Filemaker 8 | |||||||
| Access | |||||||
| OneNote | |||||||
| Publisher | |||||||
| PDF Read/Create | |||||||
| CBT | |||||||
| Speech Recognition | |||||||
| Handwriting Recognition | |||||||
| Imaging Applications | |||||||
| PDA Sync | |||||||
| Encryption/Compression | Very Slow | ||||||
| Multi-tasking | |||||||
| Business/Accounting | |||||||
| Quicken/Money | Older versions | ||||||
| QuickBooks/Peachtree | |||||||
| LOB/MCA | ? | ? | |||||
| Audio/Video | |||||||
| MIDI play/create | |||||||
| Play MP3, wav, wma, CD | |||||||
| Audio Recording/Encode | |||||||
| Play Streaming Audio | |||||||
| View Streaming Video | |||||||
| DVD Playing | |||||||
| DVD Encode/Copy | |||||||
| DVD Authoring | |||||||
| Burn CD/DVD | Very Hi CPU% | Hi CPU% | |||||
| Audio Streaming Feed | Hi CPU% | ||||||
| Photo/Graphics Processing | |||||||
| Photo Viewing | |||||||
| Photo Management | |||||||
| Photo Enhancing | |||||||
| Photo Paint/Edit | |||||||
| Advanced Photo Edit | |||||||
| Remote Access | |||||||
| RDP/UVNC/PCA client | |||||||
| UVNC/PCA host | |||||||
| RDP host | |||||||
| VPN client | |||||||
| DDNS | |||||||
| Web Development | |||||||
| FTP Client | |||||||
| WebDev basic | |||||||
| WebDev Advanced | |||||||
| Security, SysAdmin & Misc. | |||||||
| Host-based Firewall | |||||||
| Anti-Virus | |||||||
| Anti-Spyware | |||||||
| Patch Management | |||||||
| Ghost | |||||||
| Retrospect/Backup Exec | |||||||
| Virtual PC/Vmware | |||||||
| Suitability: | Inadequate | Marginal | OK | Ideal | |||
| System Configuration Levels Explained: | Last Updated: | 12/10/2005 | |||||
| 0: Salvaged | Barebone appliance for basic tasks. Slow and missing advanced features. | Completely Obsolete | |||||
| 1: Economy | Quite pleasant, and certainly productive for almost all work-related tasks. | Very Obsolete | |||||
| 2: Basic | Entry-level mainstream system. There's nothing you can't do with this system. | Obsolete | |||||
| 3: Very Nice | More than meeting basic requirements. | Almost Current | |||||
| 4: Excellent (Standard) | Value Sweet Spot. Power to spare. Entry-level current generation new systems. | Current | |||||
| 5: Power | Mainstream power-users. OK value. Marginally faster than Level 4 for most tasks. | Current | |||||
| 6: Extreme | Very poor bang-for-the-buck. Top-of-The-Line bragging rights for 90-days. | Latest | |||||