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Cc: David Naylor <blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za>,
	Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: HELP: Motherboard Selection (ASUS)
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> Ted,
> I love reading your comments as you are so knowledgeable but you should give 
> a brake to a poor guy. He is already traumatized
> by online experience so we need to conform him.
>
> There is nothing wrong in buying thins from online retailers as you can 
> usually save 30-50% in my experience but as Ted said you have to know what 
> are you buying.
>

what i always do when have to buy a computer is to (after getting rough 
knowledge what will work in freebsd)

a) go to the shop and say about what i want to buy, telling in advance 
that it has to run freebsd, and i want to check it before buying.

in many shops they refuse to sell at all, but there are other shops :)

b) check everything with live cd+my laptop. disks, network, etc.

c) if it work - buy it, and ONLY complete machine, not parts.


may get slightly more expensive but no problems then