At 21:18 31/12/01 +0000, Steven Murdoch wrote: >P.S. I almost fell over when I was in PCWorld when I mentioned Linux the >member of staff I spoke to said they had a Linux machine in store. Just >one, a Patriot Cyrix 533, 64Mb RAM, 10Gb HD with 17" Monitor of �399.
On another Linux mailing list I have just been told that the motherboard on these machines is unreliable, so it might not be such a good buy after all. >From: "Andrew Challis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 21:03:22 -0000 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The two PC World stores I have been in do not want to sell these as they >have motherboards with a high failure rate. Currys also sell them and I >got the same story re failure rate of motherboards. I offered to buy 5 >which were on the shop floor and was told by the manager about the >motherboard - they are still there 3 months later untouched. I too felt >(still feel!) tempted but wouldn�t want to waste the dosh. Make you feel >better???? Steven. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.murdomedia.net/ PGP/GnuPG keys: http://www.murdomedia.net/keys.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
