On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 05:35:53PM -0800, hammack wrote: > Dell has quoted: $2180, INSPIRON 4000, 128MB, 10 GB HD, 850mHZ, > XGA, V90 Gold Card Modem, 24 X CR-ROM, with RH 7.0 installed. My > thinking is, test drive the RH for a while. then copy all config > files for reference to setting up Debian. I may bump the HD to > 20GB.
Ugh, try http://www.aslab.com/ for better quality machines. For an example (cause that Dell price is too damned high): AMD 1Ghz CPU, 256M RAM, 18.2G Ultra160 SCSI drive, onboard SYM8952U SCSI controller, HP 12x8x32 CD-RW, Matrox G450 Dual Head with 32M, Intel 10/100 ethernet, onboard AC97 audio, 3com 56k modem and keyboard (you can buy a monitor locally... I never do those mail order :)) All that, with Mandrake, CD and manuals... $1867. Save $40 and get RH without manuals if you want.... that's what I do when I remember or I give away the CD's and manuals. You could scale back the specs a bit to make it comparable to the Dell, but, um, why bother... if you're dropping $2k on a machine, you can do better than the Dell quote. Or if you really must have Intel: PIII Copermine 866, 256M ECC RAM, 18G IBM SCSI, integrated LSI1010 SCSI controller, HP 12x8x32 CD-RW, G450 dual head 32M, Creative PCI128 sound, 3Com 56k PCI modem, keyboard... oh, yeah, and the motherboard is dual-capable, so when you want to upgrade buy another 866 and drop it in. $1929. Either way, I'd do that over Dell. :) (And, no, I don't work for ASL, I just buy their machines and love 'em. :)) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;
