On Friday 09 August 2002 03:01 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: <snip> > > 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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