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| | | All, I'm shopping for a new PC. My budget is <$4000, and I'm a student, so maybe I can get student discounts? I know I want a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW drive, but other than that I don't really know much other than I want it to be fast :) Stuff I use my (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) You can probably get student deals on Apple stuff (which would fit in well with what you want to use your system for). But even with the discounts, that may not be the most economical choice. I've personally been looking at Penguin Computing (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | (...) But I do some programming and stuff too, so I don't want a Mac. (...) I was more inclined to get a Windows machine and put on a copy of Linux, but as I'm going into engineering, maybe I'll get more into Linux... (...) I use Corel Photopaint 8, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) vs (...) Dual PIII 600 vs Athlon 1Ghz is probably a toss-up. With most things, the 1Ghz Athlon will be faster, but rendering is a great best-case application for SMP, so the two PIIIs might be faster for some of what you're doing. And really, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) ewewewewewew. Sorry, I have to deal with some gateways at work, and they all, without exception, suck. If you want a windows based machine, why not go with dell? a quick look shows 1GHz PIII, 256MB 19" monitor, 40GB HD, DVD and CDRW for $4029 (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Heh. I deal with dells at work, and I think _they_ suck. Nice case design, sub-par performance. (This is the optiplex line; others may be different.) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | | | | (...) i deal with dells at work (like 30,000 of them or so) and i just love them to pieces (except the dimentions (sp) they suck)... i've dealt with compaqs, hps gateways and the special no-name brands that have the serial numbers scratched off of (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jennifer L. Boger writes: off of them that our procurment department finds off trucks somewhere :) and i (...) What do you prefer for servers? (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | | | | | (...) I think i posted later... about this.. i loved the tricords when they were around (alas, oh my, no more)... i love the compaq prolient servers now.. (not the old ones, the newer ones... 6500s and 8000s and such) they were built with me in (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | (...) laf... okie, have you found a window box that doesn't suck? We have a bunch of users that seem to resist the idea of converting to RH (for some reasonable or not-so-resonable reasons :) and I havn't found a platform I'd recommend for them, (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) Nope. Not my problem. :) (...) Very nice. (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) laptop is far and away better than the Compaqs I've had to deal with. But for non-laptops, I prefer to build my own. Bruce (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Jennifer L. Boger
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| | | | | | (...) oh yes, i love the dell laptops too... though, vaio's have a special place in my heart :) (as for servers, i love compaqs and tricords (yes, i know they're not made anymore, but when was the last time you saw a 75mhz machine with 1000 people (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) For $975 I just got all of this: Abit BE6-II PowerUp $133.00 Celeron 566 + Heatsink/Fan + Slotkit PowerUp $230.00 (tested to 850) 128mb PC133 DIMM PowerUp $126.00 Creative Labs X-Gamer Retail Comp-U-Plus $68.00 Maxtor 30.7 GB U-66 7200rpm HD (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Shopping for a new PC... —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | (...) So for the self built PCs, I've just built the one below for a friend: Asus P3C2000 motherboard Intel PIII 550 CPU Quantum 10.2 HDD 128 MB Century PC133 DIMM Asus 3800 TNT2 32 meg display adapter Asus T5A-B case Microsoft Internet keyboard (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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