Welcome! For a fairly comprehensive list of most prices for most items from most suppliers try www.pricespy.co.nz
At home I built a Linux box with an 800MHz mini-ITX motherboard- it's great as a server and small with low power consumption. Underpowered for some tasks, perhaps. You can pick up Linux discs from many people on this list- once you have decided which flavour you want. ECafe in town (in the Arts Centre) will also burn a distro of your choice for few New Zealand coins. Have fun! Andy (ooh, spooky!) On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:24, you wrote: > Hi All, > I'm not sure if an intro of myself is appropriate here so I haven't > written one :) > Here's my question - I was planning to lurk longer before making a > posting but having just moved to ChCh from England I'm looking to buy a > desktop. I've tried buy/sell/exchange, dell ( well priced but 10-12 > days delivery ) and a couple of local stores ( relatively overpriced? ) > and have got nothing so far. I thought you all may have more ideas on > where I can get something. It doesn't need to be flash, but I would like > 80Gb+ hard drive space, which I can buy separately/expand if needed, and > something that I can run a full windowing gui on. > I am also looking for some flavour of Linux, I've kind of lost touch > with it as I have been travelling for the past few years - basically I > want to: run LAMP, play music and have the potential to watch films if I > ever fork out for a DVD player. I would also like my 'not interested in > Linux at all' partner to be able to use it so Gnome or whatever is > definitely needed. Is there a flavour of choice among the group? Would > anyone be able to make me a copy - which I would cover the costs of? > Finally - can I attend the AGM? > > Many thanks and sorry for the long mail, > > Andy
