OT: Need a new computer

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:13:00PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> Taking Lennart's comments into account, and examining my
> willingness-to-pay at a threshold of $600 (educational price for a Mac
> Mini), I updated my requirements.
> 
> What I ultimately want is a fully-functional Linux box - the Mac route,
> though I love the power consumption and form factor, doesn't get me as
> close to that as I like to that goal.
> 
> I ultimately went with this system from Filtech:
> 
> cheap case
> P5KPL-AM SE motherboard (network, video, sound on board)
I hate microATX boards.  No expansion room.  The onboard stuff is fine
these days.

> 2 GB Kingston RAM
> Core 2 Quad Q8200 (no VT support, but I don't care, and the clockspeed
> jump from 1GHz to 2.3GHz will (does!) seem big enough for me)
> Seagate 320 Gb hard drive
Avoid these like the plague.  I still think $5 or 10 to double to a
640GB is easily worth it.  You will need it some day.  And stay away
from seagate SATA drives.  They are morons when it comes to sata firmware.
They have a long history of failures so far.  Not disk failures, but
firmware failures.

> Thermaltake 500W power supply
I don't get a good feeling about those based on the tests I have read.
In fact I get very bad feelings.  What I listed in the last email is a
much better quality setup.

> $530 taxes in.

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Len Sorensen
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