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  From: Joseph Tan <j.tan@softhome.net>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: 04 May 2002 20:11:47 +0930

Re: Dell Inpspiron 8200 and Linux?

+ $3000 I meant.

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 20:02, Joseph Tan wrote:
> 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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