From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 21 10:19:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA05042 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA05032 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id MAA00945; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:16:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199708211559.KAA06052@compound.east.sun.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:16:53 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Subject: Re: What computer to buy ? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 21-Aug-97 Tony Kimball wrote: > >Pentium II is just about the opposite of futureproof -- it is planned >obsolescence: Slot 1 has a very short lifetime plan. Could you possibly elaborate on this a bit? A friend of mine is considering purchasing a Pentium II (266 MHz) system, and I'd like to know if I should warn him off of it. Thanks. -- Conrad Sabatier | FreeBSD -- UNIX for your PC | Why settle for less than the best? http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/ | http://www.freebsd.org