<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The link you supplied looks like a good system, but if you shop around you may get a better price.<br><br>Everyone has there favourites, myself its: AMD64 3500, 2G RAM, 250G HD, onboard:lan, navidi video, sound, etc. (quality speekers not included). This system should be cheaper and due very well for what you described. Just the PC, it cost me $200 a little while back.<br><br><span>This guy has been very good to me in the past. <a target="_blank" href="http://routervillage.com/">http://routervillage.com/</a> He is not much into website, but equipment, he is very good with. Good pricing for referburbished and new.</span><br><br>Good luck in
your search!<br>Abby<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:57:52 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TLUG]: Hardware recommendations, please<br></font><br><br> I am in
the market for a new desktop system, but my knowledge of PC<br> hardware is very limited. I have only bought one X86 system in my<br> life (described below) though I had inherited a couple previously.<br><br> Can you make any suggestions about what to get, what to avoid,<br> where to buy, where not to buy, etc.?<br><br> I am considering something like this, with an added 1TB HD:<br> <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sonnam.com/system.asp?prod_ID=SYS-SN-CLE-0005">http://www.sonnam.com/system.asp?prod_ID=SYS-SN-CLE-0005</a>><br><br> I am not a gamer; the most taxing use I have for the video card is<br> probably playing DVDs and YouTube downloads.<br><br> I do care about sound quality (all my music is on my HD), but I<br> don't care about a lot of features. (I don't even want the ability<br> to mix sound sources; I want only my music to be heard.
The<br> computer
should otherwise be silent apart from the PC speaker.)<br><br><br><br> Current hardware (bought March 2002, RAM and HDDs upgraded)<br><br> P4 1.6GHz<br> 1GB DDR RAM<br> Nvidia Riva TNT2 32MB<br> IDE drives:<br> 160 GB<br> 250 GB<br> 500 GB<br> 17" CRT monitor<br><br><br> I have the following running at all times:<br><br> 20 desktops (WindowMaker, 2 banks of 10)<br> 9 rxvt terminal windows:<br> 3 local shell<br> 1 alpine<br> 1 slrn<br> 1 root shell<br> 3 ssh to remote<br> emacs - user, 3 windows<br> emacs - root, 1 window<br> 2 gentoo file managers<br> oowriter - 2+ windows (until book is finished -- a few more weeks)<br><br><br><br>-- <br>
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