At 05:29 PM 9/01/01 +1100, you wrote:
> > 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 :/
Exactly what it will be used for - the HD will be beefed up a little, but
the bloody things use a CrapPaq proprietary CD-ROM, so a gateway / mail
server it is...
We used to use this exact box at work as a M$ proxy server, and running
400+ users through it it was slooooow......
Jon
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