Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:50:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSd Chat list <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestion for computer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970413203643.4111D-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199704140305.XAA03802@federation.addy.com>
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Depends on where you're located. I can think of many good places here in the SF Bay Area. For a FBSD friendly system I would definitely NOT buy a prebuilt package. I would hand select the best components and then shop around and find the best deal on the individual parts. It's not very difficult to build up a good, inexpensive system. I would also recommend sacrificing CPU speed for more memory. I recently upgraded my hardware from a P5-60 to a P5-133. I think I paid $145 for the P5-133, the same shop wanted around $600 for the P5-200MMX. Oh, BTW, if you have the cash go with SCSI over EIDE. I wish I would have. I can give you more specific recommendations on hardware, if you want. I would stay away from Compaque and other such prebuilt systems. I have been following FBSD-questions for a few months now. I have seen many questions/problems with Compaque systems and FBSD. On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Any suggestions for a FreeBSD friendly computer VAR/reseller/store? > I am looking to buy a new computer in a month or two. I am going to be > running: > FreeBSD, OS/2, Win95 and possibly NT. > > At one point someone suggested Rodney Grimes and I got a price list > from him, but I sent a message to the email address I had from last > year and got no response. > > I tried taking a peak at the list of vendors at www.freebsd.org, but > thought may be better to get someone recommended from this list. > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)help
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