Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:09:10PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Questions wrote: > >Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these > >respective vendors? > [snip] > > > >How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in > >years but when I have in the past, there

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Barniskis
Questions wrote: Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these respective vendors? [snip] How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in years but when I have in the past, there didn't seem to be any major issues. I'm looking at a Power Edge 1850 with the

Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jim Stapleton
I can't answer this too well unfortunately, but I can give you a bit of info. Dell does not carry AMD, and probably will not for a long time. However they do have AMD64 compatable Intel chips, which are better at bandwidth, though not as good for calculations. Dell treats their business customers