Hi, I went down to PC practice, corner ferry road and Fitzgerald ave.
I speced the box, - they built it. Sadly, they put a lower grade case on than what was required. No problem, they swapped the case- no charge. The machine came with no os - which was good for me. I asked for a Nvidia video card - cause it was ok on linux. AMD-64 with dual ATA drives. Yep, and it goes like a rocket. Then, I would suggest you go down to dark star imports and buy an ex lease monitor, and you will get a 21 inch phillips monitor for 380 (inc gst). I considered building a box myself. Warranty is a "nice thing" to have. Particularly, if you discover some component is not linux compliant. Going through a firm like PC practice, means you can swap components after buying the machine. ============ I considered buying a second hand machine. This is not an option. People (on trademe) are asking a price around half of what they paid. Their asking price is similar to a brand new computer from PC practice. And has no warranty. ========================================== The computer's name is "beast" Derek. ======================================================================== On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Isaac Devine wrote: > I'm on amd64 with about the requirements you specify. It is a very > solid machine and really snappy too:) The only problem with it is > that some apps aren't natively(64bit) built or stable on it yet > (openoffice is one) - though the 32bit versions will still run faster > and comparably on the amd64 to a pentium4. Not sure about scanner > support however. Most mobos also come with really decent inbuilt sound > now as well. Just make sure you get a althon-64 distro. I've heard > ubuntu is nice and should be suited for the tasks you are talking > about. > > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:48:36 +1300, Andrew Packer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our old PII-266 box is no longer meeting my wife's needs. Time for a > > new box. Her imminent requirements include editing hi-res scans of > > photographs and complex graphics, using the GIMP, and working on > > documents in OpenOffice.org. We are not gamers and are not interested > > in editing video (nor in watching videos on her PC). > > > > I am not impressed by the offerings of mass-market electronics/appliance > > houses. I have envisioned an AMD-64 machine with 1G or more of RAM, a > > modest video card (enough video RAM to hold one or two screens) and > > sound card and lots of disk space. Trouble is, the only local assembler > > I'd trust builds only with Intel chips. I don't think waiting for Intel > > to come out with their version of the Athlon 64 is an option. > > > > Do you recommend sticking with the Pentium series and the local > > assembler (who tell me they're happy to build specifically for Linux), > > or forging ahead with Athlon-64 from some place like Quay Computers (I'm > > more familiar with Wellington than with Christchurch)? If the latter, > > is there a shop or shops in Christchurch that you particularly recommend > > above all others? > > > > TIA for your advice, > > > > =====Andrew > > > > > > > -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me......
