I'm noticing that many vendors are now calling the Celeron a P4 in their
advertising. Caution.
If you can get 'um,they have also a P4 A which has 512 L2 cache.
Ronald Willis wrote:
What cheaper processor are you refering to? The Celeron? The P4/2.4
was a selectable no cost upgrade that I did n
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ben Timmerman wrote:
> Do NOT buy your memory from Dell...go to http://crucial.com.
> You'll save about 50%-Ben
Of course Crucial/Micron memory is the best. My wife works for Micron
in a chip fab but I'm not biased ;)
> What cheaper processor are you refering to? The Celeron? The P4/2.4
> was a selectable no cost upgrade that I did not have to ask about.
> I did my homework on this before attempting to purchase it as I've
Yes, the cheaper processor was the celeron for the advertised
price...clearly they do
Somehow the thread got broken on this and did not get posted...here it
is again-Ben
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tuser sez
> ...I did notice though that it is much cheaper to get the server
> addon's from the Dell peripherals section AFTER ordering the server
> then bundled with the server. A good exa
tuser sez
> ...I did notice though that it is much cheaper to get the server
> addon's from the Dell peripherals section AFTER ordering the server
> then bundled with the server. A good example is an extra 512 memory,
> it is only $168 after the fact but $199 when listed in the "build
> server
On 11 Mar 2003 at 15:46, Ronald Willis wrote:
>
> Ask about the processor...celeron or pent.
>
> Ask about the motherboard buss speed, will you truely experience 533 mhz
> with the cheaper microprocessor?
>
> And of course make sure the rebates are not based on your agreement to
> purchase the
I ordered one for a client of mine. It is important to mention that the
Dell folks are a bit rigid about their sales ads.
But of course buyer beware...make sure you are getting a real value for
your under $500 server;
Ask about the processor...celeron or pent.
Ask about the motherboard buss spe
Damn...
I had everything in my shopping cart for this and decided to wait
until morning so I could research the Linux compatibility a little
more. In the morning the $110 discount was down to $80. Figuring I
better get the ball rolling I completed everything up to and
including my credit car
Got this info from someone in the DOE. No OS, configurable.
Found this one at http://bensbargains.net/ for anyone looking for a system.
No OS, take the 1 year warranty. Should be $366.64 shipped to Hawaii.
Might consider if for a workstation too.
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.as
