> I informally act as a hardware purchase advisor for a large number of
> friends, and until I see a really fundamental attitude/business practice
> shift I'll be no more advising the purchase of a compaq or similar than
> I would a winmodem. Sorry, I know your post was in a more light hearted
> tone than this reply, but these practices have cost friends a lot of
> money.
While I agree entirely with your point regarding these machines for desktop
boxes, I have to say that the deskpros are really nice gateway machines.
nicely overengineed to be cool, good reliable harddrives, compact size etc.
Yeah so for a gateway/router id say Yay, but for a desktop, Nay :/
Dave
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