Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:47:06 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mailorder vendors (was Re: Does FreeBSD work with "SB Live" and "GeForce"?) Message-ID: <20050429184705.GA16177@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <E1DRT0G-0007Mi-00@pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net> References: <20050429004556.GA71140@thought.org> <E1DRT0G-0007Mi-00@pop-a065d14.pas.sa.earthlink.net>
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> Also, if anybody knows of a good online store, please let me
> know. I found a website called "tigerdirect.com". Am I
> tossing the dice? anybody dealt with this place?
TigerDirect has been around for at least 12 years, and has offered
poor value, often shoddy parts, and (I've heard) consistently bad
service during the entire period I've had contact with them. They make
up for it by heavy direct mail advertising. I would not consider them,
personally.
Emachines offer surprisingly good value in my experience. Early on
they had a rep for using cheap parts, but when I've checked out more
recent models in the last few years, I have found them to be choosing
very similar components to what I would use to build an inexpensive but
reliable desktop system.
Alienware is a build-to-order company that caters especially to gamers
(high-speed oriented) but has lower-end systems too. They have a
pretty good rep for quality, but I doubt they'll have any idea what
works with BSD.
If you want a built-to-order system that is verified to work with
*BSD operating systems, allow me to recommend ASA Computers. I've
bought server hardware from them off and on for the last 10 years; they
cater to BSD and Linux users especially, are very value-oriented, and
have great service. They do have desktop/workstation offerings as well
as servers.
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com
Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect
"I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..."
-- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair
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