Re: buy or build computer?
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On Sunday 09 Mar 2003 6:55 pm, Peter Christensen wrote:
> My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't boot
> from the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into bios-setup
> mode.) I don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was so slow that it's
> probably time to replace it. Temporarily I'm using a borrowed computer
> with Win95. Yuck!
>
> For my next computer I want to make sure that everything is compatible with
> Linux. I searched this list and found a few posts about buying computers.
I have built my own machines from the ground up for a while. I am now only
using home built machines on my network (P2 400 server, Athlon 900
workstation, and Duron 1.2GHz for the family).
For a first time builder, I would suggest the last machine I built - which I
did when the Gateway Profile that I had died, and the family were without a
machine. I'm in the UK, but I ordered the parts over the internet and then
put them together one evening a couple of days later when they had all
arrived. I was slightly constrained on size (the machine sits on a shelf in
the main family room) so I bought the Shuttle ss40g with separately purchased
Duron processor, 128Mb memory module, DVD drive, floppy drive, usb mouse and
Flat screen (I recovered the keyboard, and 20gb hard drive from the failed
machine - but thats easy to buy if you need). Unless you need stellar video
performance, this motherboard from this machine includes video, audio and
ethernet interfaces avoiding the need for buying these.
I think the look of this is really nice - take a look at this review (its not
mine)
http://www.penstarsys.com/Reviews/system/shuttle/ss40g/
The only real useful equipment I have is an earthing strap for my wrist (just
as a precaution against static - I wear it whenever I am working with
electrical goods) and a smallish Philips screwdriver.
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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