[Gslug-general] Hardware recommendations?

[Ian Gallagher]

What's your reasoning for not wanting to build your own machine? For
something that powerful, it seems worthwhile to do so. Are you looking
for a warranty on the hardware or something?

Personally, I'd just build my own, It always seems to come out less
and then I can pick exactly where I want the good components and where
it doesn't matter to me, I don't need to have some expensive component
when a cheap/nonexistent one would do. And of course, there's no MSFT
tax to deal with :) (Nice term, btw!)

-Ian

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Andrew Carter <ascarter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in the market for a new desktop machine. I'm replacing a
>  circa-2001 Dell PowerEdge server turned workstation. I primarily want
>  Intel Quad Core and support for 8GB RAM. I'll run Ubuntu 7.10+ and
>  VMWare or Xen.
>
>  My short list is:
>  Dell Precision t3400n (open source desktop but expensive)
>  Dell XPS 420 (although no 8GB and Vista/XP MSFT tax)
>  HP Pavilion Ultimate d4999t (but comes with Vista MSFT tax)
>
>  The HP is the best deal but I've never owned HP. My closest experience
>  was very bad with a Compaq in the 90's.
>
>  Anyone have recommendations? Alternatives to the name brands? I don't
>  really want to build my own so I was hoping to buy.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Andrew
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