my experience with Dell (was: build from scratch?)

[Eric Gilliland]

Dear Daryl,

I have a 6 month old Dell Dimension 8100 and I am very happy with it.  It is 
P4 1.3GHz, 256 megs RAM, a NVIDIA 32 meg video card, a 40 gig HD, a cd-dvd, 
and a cd-rw.  I have had no problems with it at all, at least as far as the 
computer itself.  It came with Win ME, but I have since done a clean install 
of XP.  It is now set to dual boot Win XP and Mandrake Linux 8.1.  The only 
thing I changed is I put in a linux compatible modem, because I forgot to 
get one when I ordered.  I have only called customer support once, while 
installing the new modem, and found it to be good.  I had to call because 
there was a wire conecting my modem and my sound card.  They told me that I 
could remove it if I was installing a hardware modem (which, of course, I 
was) and I did and it worked fine.  The wait was about 10 minutes, on a 
friday night.  I have had some minor problems getting mandrake set up right 
but these are hardly Dell's fault.  Overall, I am very happy with my Dell 
and would buy another one.

Just my 2 cents,

Eric Gilliland

>From: Daryl <dfallin at kc.rr.com>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Build system from scratch?
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:02:30 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>Ok..  well looks like I need another PC and I am trying to decide if I am
>going to build my own or try and buy a system from Dell/Compaq or somebody
>since things are so cheap.
>
>Anyway.. I am looking for opinions?  If I build my own system is there a
>hot motherboard that anyone could recommend?  Which Motherboard on the
>market has the best configuration/options.  CPU  Intel?  AMD?  opinions?
>
>Opinions on a particular already built system?  Dell?  Compaq?  others?
>
>of course if someone knows of a website that already has this kind of
>information please point me to that direction.
>
>
>My use of the machine will be a desktop machine.  Must be able to support
>High End Video and CD/DVD Burning... running Dual Boot of Linux and
>Windows.
>
>Thanks
>
>Daryl
>
>
>

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