On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 20 June 2008 12:55:33 Matthew Whiting wrote:
Kia ora,
Molten Media for cheap.
205-A Wordsworth Street
Sydenham
Christchurch 8023
Phone 03 377 1154
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Broker for something rather better.
http://www.computerbroker.co.nz/
CHRISTCHURCH
Phone: (03) 377 5195
Fax: (03) 377 5105
DragonPc (www.dragonpc.co.nz) for new, but still cheap.
Having been through the debate with my colleagues over the costs:
A molten media type box will come at $100 or so, with a 1ghz or so proc.
A comp broker box will be $200+
they will insist on selling it with windows xp, so the price is higher.
this is a couple of years old.
dragonpc will sell an upgrade kit (new) for $250+gst with mem,case,
mboard,cpu but no drives, and no OS.
My view is that the newer box is going to last quite a bit longer than
the previous choices, and on a cost/hassle basis works out best....
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I recently bought a box from a shop which was an exlease model. It failed
the memtest in every linux live cd disk. I took it back. There were other
computers (of the same type) in the shop. On the next 3 computers I tried,
memtest failed on all of them.
The shop did take the computer back in the end, but they did mutter
about linux incompatibilities. The shop felt the memory in the computers
was OK. I felt sorry for anyone buying them.
At which point, I looked at the hassle factor and went to
dragonpc....
Derek.
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Derek Smithies Ph.D.
IndraNet Technologies Ltd.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ph +64 3 365 6485
Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
