On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:53:42AM -0800, Dennis Bagley wrote: > At the risk of some flickering heat - I have had very good luck with > Technology Center on Glendale near Rock. They have built a number of > machines to my specs for me & my companies over the years for very > reasonable prices which have held up fairly well. > > Otherwise go to the regular suspects (Circuit City, Best Buy, CompUSA) - > HP/Compaq machines can be had for around $500-$700 or throwaway eMachine > crappers for even less. > > I personally like a local shop I can reach out and touch if something > goes south on the hardware. > > If you go the VMWare route - You will not regret putting in lots and > lots of extra RAM, but also remember the VMWare itself will run you > 2 bill$.
Another bit of advice.. I tend to spend more liberally on displays, as these traditionally don't lose value as fast as other components. CRT's have been on a dive lately due to LCD introduction, but prior to that, CRT's had remained pretty consistently priced for many years. The LCD market may have changed all this, and we may see LCD panel prices bottoming out, but I kind of doubt it'll happen anything like other commodity parts. I'd recommend that whatever portion you've budgeted for display, think about increasing it.. :-) Oh yeah... don't forget to checkout wallmart.com, assuming you are not going to put windows on it [sorry, I have to be optimistic here :)], they sell MSTaxless PC's/laptops with Lindows... I don't think the big boys do that yet... _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
