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  From: Joseph Tan <j.tan@softhome.net>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: 04 May 2002 20:02:23 +0930

Re: Dell Inpspiron 8200 and Linux?

Hi Andrew,

Yea your right. The Dell machine I was looking at on Friday was a tad
under $10k, but I had to add to account for an extra $300 for the second
2GHz Xeon CPU and extra RAM.

Cheers,
Joseph Tan

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 19:50, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 03:53:51PM +0930, Joseph Tan wrote:
> 
> > $5000-$8000. For that kind of money you could be buying a brand name
> > server-class dual-CPU 2Ghz+ Pentium 4 Xeon or Athlon MP, 1Gb+ RAM, a lot
> > of hard drive room, and room for more expansion. A full GeForce 4 Ti
> > would easily outclass the GeForce 4 Go by a large margin in higher
> > resolutions, since the notebook variety is a GeForce 4 MX.
> 
> I'd debate weather or not you could get a brand-name server-class
> machine with the specifications that you have listed with that kind of
> cash. Brand-name Xeon boxen are often over $10K.
> 
> 
> If you buy non-brand-name stuff, your money goes a lot further, and
> you could (definitely) get that kind of machine (possibly not the
> Xeon, though) for that kind of money.
> 
>    - andrew
> 
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