Good ideas! Thanks! swaying towards a Dell for now. I have all the hardware and software for a PC. Don't want to stat over right now.
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Good ideas! Thanks! swaying towards a Dell for now. I have all the hardware and software for a PC. Don't want to stat over right now.
I'll put it plain and simple. I build my own. Best price for best/neccesary components. It's like Burger King. Get it your way, right away. That's just me though, the last whole PC I bought was back in 1995. That was also the first one and yes it was a Dell. (Pentium 1 @ 133 Mhz, 16 MB RAM, 28.8 kbs modem, 6X CD-ROM, 2 MB video card, and 2 GB HDD. But now I have a Dell for work and it's great. It's a Latitude 600.
My home rigs are
Main:
Pentium 4 @ 3.2 Ghz
Corsair Pro 2 GB RAM
Western Digital 74 GB Raptor (10,000 RPM SATA) x2
ATI 9800 Pro 256 MB video card
Sound Blaster Audiology 2 Pro card
Plextor 716A DL DVD-RW
HP DVD-ROM
Asus P4C800E- Deluxe mother board
PC-Power and Cooling 510 Watt power supply
Custom water cooling setup all wrapped up in a Lian-Li 67 Plus black case
Runnnig Windows XP Pro
Server:
AMD 3200+
1.5 GB Kingston RAM
Western Digital 120 GB HDD x3 in a RAID 5
IBM/Hitachi 20 GB x2 in a RAID 1
ATI 9800 Pro 128 MB video card
Plextor 48/24 CD-RW
HP DVD-ROM
Antec 400 Watt power supply
DFI Lanparty 350Gb mother board
All wrapped up in a Lian-Li 75 silver case
Running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Laptops:
HP N610c with CD-RW with 1 GB RAM (test rig currently running Windows Vista Beta 2)
HP N620c with CD-RW with 30 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, Linkys WiFi card (currently testing MS Office 2007 Pro)
HP NC6220 with 40 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi (this one is actually collecting dust even though it is the newest one of the bunch)
All running Windows XP Pro
Extras:
Linksys WRT54GS broadband WiFi router with high gain antenas
Linksys EG008W 8 port gigabit switch
Cat6 cable between all cabled connections
Oh and the download machine:
Compaq something
Pentium M @ 2 Ghz
1 GB RAM
Seagate 120 GB HDD
Running Windows XP Pro