Computer purchase

Charles Crawford ccrawford at acb.org
Thu Sep 5 14:11:12 EDT 2002


Why not go to Pogolinux?  Same thing and they are Linux.
You can even get dual boot if you like.

-- chrlie.

-- charlie.
At 11:14 AM 9/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Okay. I went to the Dell website, )www.del.ca), and started to look at 
>their desktops. I think the Dell Dimension 4500 or the 8200 with the following:
>
>Computer equipment list for a desktop PC
>
>A 2.53GHz Pentium 4 CPU
>512MB of RAM
>80GB hard drive
>3.5 inch Floppy
>CDRW drive, (Dell asks you to choose)
>DVD ROM drive, (Dell asks you to choose)
>On board Ethernet card, (for Cable Modem), (Dell asks you to choose)
>On board/ add in multi channel sound card, (Dell asks you to choose)
>Flat panel monitor or CRT, (no gameing or heavy graphics)
>Video Card, (no heavy graphics or desktop publishing), , (Dell asks you to 
>choose)
>1 serial and paralell port, (all Dell desktop's have at least one)
>USB ports, (All Dell desktop's have six)
>four PCI slots, (all Dell Desktop's have at least four)
>I have a 3Com 3C905B TX
>I have a PCI SCSI card for my SCSI scanner
>
>Would make sure we had a desktop PC for years to come. Could you please 
>complete the list so when we order from Dell we would know exactly what to 
>say?Thank you.
>
>Angus MacKinnon
>Adaptive Computer Educator, ACE
>Web page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
>MAILTO:flodabay at hotmail.com
>Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
>http://www.choroideremia.org
>
>
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