Mboards have just about everything on board now.
Our latest roll out is an i810 and soundMAX (?)
onboard with a 530tx card.
These machines are about the size of 2 laptops.
(not inc 17" obviously)
have 1 x lil fdd and 2 x big fdd
Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness
gives peope more desk space. ;)
They also shouldnt be bad linux boxes.
I have no gripes with inbuilt stuff when you
get such a size difference. Certainly home
machines benefit from upgradability though.
I wouldnt buy such a thing. But they suit
our needs well.
Dean
Ken Yap wrote:
> |Onboard? Run away, run away!
> |
> |I highly recommend having as much off the motherboard as you can - they
> |always come back to bite later anyway. A network interface is less of a
> |problem than a sound card or whatever, but it's always good to be able to
> |pull out a problem. :)
>
> Nah, they're fine. Usually there's a BIOS option to disable the NIC.
> Would you recommend always having serial and parallel interfaces
> offboard? They work fine. You don't have a choice these days anyway.
> The usual problem is that up till recently up till recently most mobos
> with integrated NICs were mediocre.
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