Re: new computer
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Peter,
The irony is around that time Maxtor made the drives for IBM. Thats probably why they were so quick to honor your request because Maxtor was the same drive only cheaper.lol
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What about the iMac? ~$1500 and more than enough computer than what you will use it for.
If you are big into gaming it might not be your cup of tea but I prefer Mac to PC. Not that I'm a hardcore windows hater but I just get less trouble from my Mac.
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Like I said, they're not Maxtors... They're Seagates. I'm working for the same company as Peter now.
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They certainly didn't look the same. Different case, diffenent logic board. Oh well.
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Err, I feel dumb. He's talking about the old computers, isn't he....
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I'm talking about the prior generation of HPs. They were Vectras. The d530s have been great. Only a few HD replacements here and there so far.
/knocks on (fake) wood.
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Ya our company resells HPs. Ever since the HP/Compaq merger their business class desktops and servers went from average to really good.
I would stay away from a HP/Compaq retail PC however.
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thanks for the discussion and views......sorry i was not able to post for the past two days....the debate continues.....apple vs wintel, pantium vs amd, xp vs linux, gaming vs home office.....i am more comfortable using windows platform, never used AMD chip and will be using computer for digital stuff - cds, dvds, pixs etc and some gaming....i did try monarch computers and their prices look reasonalbe.....agree with dell computers being solidly built...
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Skyhawk,
Oh, the joys of "big IT." I started out as a drone in the Intel Enterprise IT department. Talk about "filling out forms in triplicate" before anything gets done. But with 200,000 machines plus worldwide you need some strict controls. Luckily I was quickly able to move to supporting a single R&D group that was allowed to buy everything outside of normal procurement. This was because the group needed support for multiple platforms not to mention some odd skills. For example: I ran a broadband cable internet service and an ATSC (HDTV) broadcasting station from my lab. No kidding. This was late '98 and our group was riding the bleeding edge of content delivery. So the dept. manager one day said "Mark and Ajit, we need to be able to test this stuff once we get some solid builds going. I want to test delivery via cable modem and the ATSC broadcast stream. Set it up." About $300,000 and many a sleepless night later we had it all running. We had a broadcast radius of about 35 feet, but that was good enough. The cable thing was cool too, I purchased a Cisco CMTS and about 20 different cable modems and put them in the developers cubicles. Quite the cool bit of tech back in the day.
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has anybody purchased from Falcon Northwest ?? seems like they make some pretty neat stuff......
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