For what it's worth. I started putting my own machines together around '84. I didn't have too much trouble with hardware or matching up to software until the late 90's. Now, it's just more trouble than it's worth. My last 4 machines have been store bought and, yes, I buy the 3 year extended warantee -- good thing since my last machine is crapping out on me after 2 years -- to the shop it goes once I've got my new one up to speed.
IMHO, they're all built to crap out in 3 years, just like cars. You're the beneficiary of some good luck and bad luck right now. The bad luck is that the store bought PC's are all loaded with (shudder) Vista now unless you can find a discontinued one from last year with XP. The good luck is that (I suspect) m$ must be subsidizing the hell out of the vendors 'cause prices are at an ALL TIME LOW right now. Good luck; C Malcolm Greene wrote: > I'm in the market for getting a new developer workstation. Profox is > full of past threads discussing machine configs but as we all know, the > technology is changing so fast that many of these threads are > out-of-date even before they are finished. > > I'm looking for recommendations on either a brand name workstation (HP, > Dell, Gateway, etc) with specific options or recommendations on a > build-it-yourself config from the ground up (motherboard, ram, video > card, hard drive, fan, etc) including vendor suggestions (NewEgg, > TigerDirect, etc). > > I plan on running Windows and Linux VM's on this workstation and doing > Windows (VFP, .NET) and Linux (PHP/Python/MySQL and Dabo?!) development. > > I am not looking for a laptop. > > Finally, I am not a hardware guy so keep your suggestions simple ;) > > Thanks in advance! > > Malcolm > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
