my experience with Dell (was: build from scratch?)
Eric Gilliland
jegilliland at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 16 19:59:24 CST 2002
Dear Daryl,
I have a 6 month old Dell Dimension 8100 and I am very happy with it. It is
P4 1.3GHz, 256 megs RAM, a NVIDIA 32 meg video card, a 40 gig HD, a cd-dvd,
and a cd-rw. I have had no problems with it at all, at least as far as the
computer itself. It came with Win ME, but I have since done a clean install
of XP. It is now set to dual boot Win XP and Mandrake Linux 8.1. The only
thing I changed is I put in a linux compatible modem, because I forgot to
get one when I ordered. I have only called customer support once, while
installing the new modem, and found it to be good. I had to call because
there was a wire conecting my modem and my sound card. They told me that I
could remove it if I was installing a hardware modem (which, of course, I
was) and I did and it worked fine. The wait was about 10 minutes, on a
friday night. I have had some minor problems getting mandrake set up right
but these are hardly Dell's fault. Overall, I am very happy with my Dell
and would buy another one.
Just my 2 cents,
Eric Gilliland
>From: Daryl <dfallin at kc.rr.com>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Build system from scratch?
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:02:30 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>Ok.. well looks like I need another PC and I am trying to decide if I am
>going to build my own or try and buy a system from Dell/Compaq or somebody
>since things are so cheap.
>
>Anyway.. I am looking for opinions? If I build my own system is there a
>hot motherboard that anyone could recommend? Which Motherboard on the
>market has the best configuration/options. CPU Intel? AMD? opinions?
>
>Opinions on a particular already built system? Dell? Compaq? others?
>
>of course if someone knows of a website that already has this kind of
>information please point me to that direction.
>
>
>My use of the machine will be a desktop machine. Must be able to support
>High End Video and CD/DVD Burning... running Dual Boot of Linux and
>Windows.
>
>Thanks
>
>Daryl
>
>
>
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