Dear No-op:
The SSD may well come with the screws, but if not, he might need to deal
in a bit of hardware.
The SSD I used in my "Flivver" machine (read a low cost Rube Goldberg
model that does very well for its old age and low cost) cost me all of
$CDN 89.95 plus local taxes and made a real difference running F12, even
with only 750 Mb. of RAM.
I have built a number of machines from scratch over the years, so 6-32
machine screws and a lot more hardware stuff (such as the SCSI and IDE
cables I have pressed myself to suit custom needs and more) are only a
part of it all.
My main machine runs on 4 physical SATA drives using them to handle the
concurrent seek approach when booted in either XP or F13 64 bit.
I run a lot of Oo Draw, Gimp and many other diverse apps (Miro,
Audacity, ABBYY Sprint as examples.)
I also have 3 scanners attached, although the SANE back end for my
Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL does not work with the TMA1600 option. (That
add-on is even very persnickety even in Win XP.) but to replace the
whole unit would be worth about $C2500.00 - a bit pricey.
(All this in English, French and some Spanish.)
This evidently seems a trifle verbose, but the benefits are always in
the details - and that also means the details of how they all interact.
Best Regards,
Bruce M.
