On Friday 09 August 2002 03:01 pm, Alastair Scott wrote:
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> On further investigation the whole issue is difficult, mainly because of
> the problem you note but also because there's not even standard terminology
> ('half-height', 'low-profile' and various other expressions are used).
>
> There are a _lot_ of groups.google.com posts on this issue, but almost no
> answers, which is strange given that Dell and Gateway, among others, sell
> machines with compact cases.
>
> Then, from ancestral memories of HCI work I did some time ago, I had a
> brainwave - ask a computer shop in the City of London. Trading floors are
> jammed with IT equipment and have all sorts of space-saving paraphernalia
> (small cases, flat panels) so are bound to specialise, or at least know of,
> compatible equipment.
>
> To try next week, as well as contacting ATi and nVidia direct.
>
> (The fallback is the G550, but £100 to add a graphics card to a PC 'free as
> in beer' which is usable, if not brilliant, as it is is a bit much ...).
>
> Alastair
> - --
> Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
> http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
Sounds like a good plan Alastair.100 pounds? Wow! In Canadian$ that comes to serious coin. CDN$239.73 at the current exchange excluding the bank fees involved. This is a listing from a local vendor that I get weekly: MATROX MILLENNIUM G550 AGP 32MB DDR 360MHZ DUAL HEAD G45+MDHA32D (OEM) $180.00 (GBP=75.11) for comparison: ATI RADEON 9000 PRO AGP 64MB (RETAIL) $230.00 (GBP=95.97) Prices are in monopoly money...errrr Canadian dollars. Can someone send you a "gift" that you pay for? LMAO -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Nouvelle cuisine, n.: French for "not enough food". Continental breakfast, n.: English for "not enough food". Tapas, n.: Spanish for "not enough food". Dim Sum, n.: Chinese for more food than you've ever seen in your entire life.
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