Full PC specs: Alienware Area-51 15-inch NEC Multisync monitor; Intel Pentium 4 520 3.0GHz; ATI Radeon X600 XT PCI-Express graphics card; 512MB of PC4200 RAM; 80GB Seagate 7200rpm hard drive; 16X DVD-ROM optical drive.

If desk space is a problem--and you can afford it--the flat-screen NEC MultiSync monitor provides plenty of viewable screen area.

(Never try to configure a multimedia PC yourself.) The workstation is a Dell 486 DX4 - a superfast computer with 256 kilobytes of fast cache memory, a two-megabyte Number 9 video card, a large multisync monitor, 16 megabytes of ram, a video digitizer, a sound card, an Ethernet network card, and lots of associated software running under Windows 3.1.1.

The CAD Lab consists of 24 CAD workstations, each an 80386-based, 25-Mhz DOS machine equipped with a 20" multisync monitor, a graphics card with 512K of RAM, a 100MB hard drive and a graphics tablet.

MultiSync monitors using this technology accept digital or analog input through the DVI-I connection, as well as offer a second analog input via a traditional 15-pin VGA connector.

Multisync monitors have the ability to adjust the resolution to synchronize with the signal the computer is sending.

Full-motion video (30 frames per second) and better-than-VCR quality can be displayed on VGA or multisync monitors. And over an hour of full-motion video can be played back from a standard CD-ROM.