I suggest system76.com. Its where I got my laptop. The prices are
reasonable, they come with Ubuntu pre-installed, and the tech support has
been excellent.
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I don't like hardware that fails. I build my machines and my hardware
doesn't fail. And if it is for my wife, I would not compromise, I would
give her the very best.
Sure, you could buy a Hell with a warranty, but it's not worth it to me.
Downtime costs money. I know HP used ASUS motherboar
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:38 -0700, Michael Moore wrote:
> > > I second Hyrum who mentioned quiet. I built a machine on the cheap a
> > > few years ago and it hurts my ears to sit next to.
> >
> > Oddly enough, I have two machines at home, a mongrel I've built and
> > upgraded over the years and a
> I second Hyrum who mentioned quiet. I built a machine on the cheap a
> few years ago and it hurts my ears to sit next to.
Oddly enough, I have two machines at home, a mongrel I've built and
upgraded over the years and a Dell I bought a few years back. The Dell
is much, much louder than the mo
Bryan Murdock wrote:
> I second Hyrum who mentioned quiet. I built a machine on the cheap a
> few years ago and it hurts my ears to sit next to.
Oddly enough, I have two machines at home, a mongrel I've built and
upgraded over the years and a Dell I bought a few years back. The Dell
is much, muc
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:47 -0700, David B Darrough wrote:
> Does anyone know if Dell still uses proprietary motherboards and cases? I
> thought I read somewhere that you can't put normal motherboards in Dell
> cases if you decide to upgrade in the future. I agree with the quiet
> argument, though,
Does anyone know if Dell still uses proprietary motherboards and cases? I
thought I read somewhere that you can't put normal motherboards in Dell
cases if you decide to upgrade in the future. I agree with the quiet
argument, though, as I sit next to my home-built computer that sounds like a
jet eng
If you don't like Dell, then I would recommend HP, although my
experience has been 6's with both, they both have their pros and cons,
but I've only worked on their enterprise (not consumer) level products.
I hate the thought of consumer level products from either of them. An
old friend of mine aske
If you want the ultimate in quite, they do make fanless power supplies up to
about 350 Watts. Though, they are pretty expensive.
On 11/16/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/16/06, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/15/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
On 11/16/06, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/15/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu. Should
> I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD burner we've been
> using in Firewire cases with her current c
On 11/15/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu. Should
I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD burner we've been
using in Firewire cases with her current computer.
If we're going with 'buy it', I don't like Dell.
On 11/16/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu. Should
I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD burner we've been
using in Firewire cases with her current computer.
If we're going with 'buy it', I don't like Dell.
Michael Moore wrote:
> My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu. Should
> I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD burner we've been
> using in Firewire cases with her current computer.
>
> If we're going with 'buy it', I don't like Dell. What companies do
> you r
--- Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/16/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu.
>> Should I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD
>> burner we've been using in Firewire cases with her current
>> comput
On 11/16/06, Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My wife needs a new desktop computer. It'll be running Ubuntu. Should
I buy it or build it? We've got a 200Gb HD and a DVD burner we've been
using in Firewire cases with her current computer.
You already own 2 of the significant chunks of mo
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