From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 8 14:48:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from equinox.datasyrge.net (ool-18ba2d21.dyn.optonline.net [24.186.45.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625BE37B718; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jslivko@datasyrge.net) Received: from localhost (jslivko@localhost) by equinox.datasyrge.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AA12984; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:52:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:52:49 -0501 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: Andrew Hesford Cc: FreeBSD-stable , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: APM In-Reply-To: <20010308164413.A497@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What kind of proccessor is in the xxxxr machine? If it's compatible, you can probbably just yank it out of that machine and transplant it into the Dimension T450 :) -- Jonathan M. Slivko On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Yes, I know, but I was short on cash and wanted a simple desktop. Had I > known it would cause me this much trouble (APM, buggy video with > XFree86, crappy case, 4 PCI slots), I would have held out a while longer > with my old Dimension XPS-T450. > > I'm going to start working next week, I think I'll save the processor, > RAM, and PCI cards, and invest in a high-quality motherboard, a good > case, and a replacement for the built-in video. > > Then everything will be alright. ;) > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > > Yea, > > > > The r series on Dell can be quite tricky, as they are the lowest priced > > machines on the market, which ideally doesn't make for a good server. The > > Dimension T's are much better for that, which is what I have both at home > > and at work. > > > > However, on a technical note, the r's just have bad hardware most of the > > time, with regards to FreeBSD anyways. So, I don't know what to say other > > than that. But, on the whole, Dell is a very good company. > > > > -- Jonathan M. Slivko > -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Jonathan M. Slivko | | Global IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Networks | | Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Svces. | | Webpage: http://jslivko.datasyrge.net/ | | | | Come and check out AsylumNet: irc.asylum-net.org!| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message