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Re: [LUG] WhatPC time again

 

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Kai Hendry wrote:
> On 2007-01-23T12:19+0000 Neil Williams wrote:
>> Easiest way there is to buy a separate motherboard/CPU and build the
>> system from there.
> 
> True.

totally agree..

>> Don't fancy building the machine yourself? There are people in DCGLUG
>> who would be able to build a box for you for the cost of a pint, if you
>> can arrange delivery of the components.

Yup, I know one of them very well..

> I don't think it's worth building a machine. Selecting components that
> work with linux is almost as bad as selecting whole machines! I really
> can't be bothered to replace little components that might go bad or
> arrive bad. I guess I should have said I want some sort of swap out
> guarantee or something. 

You'll be hard pushed to find that for under 300 quid and no M$ tax.

As for self builds not being worth it... I disagree.. IME you can save
lots of agro by simply choosing well known hardware vendors, nvidia,
intel, amd, abit etc...

Their hardware "just works" in our favorite OS..

> This is for my parents.

They seem smart enough to me... although something like Ubuntu is (IMO)
ideal for this...

>>> For example, is there a
>>> Macromedia Flash version for the AMD64 now?
>> Why care ? If a website doesn't work with free software versions of
>> Flash, I simply go to a different site. Sorry. ;-)
> 
> Not so easy for the Youtube / Web 2.0 lovers. :)
> 

32 bit version of firefox on 64bit GNU/Linux...

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Systems Administrator
FlashTek UK

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