John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Tue Oct 19 09:06:30 CDT 2004
eMachine had gotten very good reviews on its support the last year or so of its existance. It has recently been bought by Gateway so I have no idea what impact that has caused. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Joseph O'Connell Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:45 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: [dba-Tech] Desktop recommendation I am looking for hardware suggestions and comments. My primary development PC just lost its hard drive. The boot sector is bad so I cannot reformat it. The PC is about 4 years old, so instead of replacing the hard drive, I started lookin for "deals" on new computers. Office Depot has an emachine for $370 that includes: Celeron D Processor 330 (2.66GHz) 256MB DDR PC2700 memory 60 GB hard drive DVD-ROM/CD-RW 8-in-1 memory card reader 17" flat screen monitor For $100 the system can be upgraded to include Celeron D340 Processor (2.93GHz) 512 MB memory DVD-ROM and CD-RW >From the Intel web site, I learned that the processor includes 256KB L2 cache and 533 MHz Front Side Bus. Although this is not the fastest computer, it is quite a step up from the HP Pavillion 733GHz Pentium that it will be replacing. Does anyone have experience with emachine? What is the difference between Celeron and Pentium processors? This seems like a terrific deal, am I missing something? The operating system is Windows XP Home. I will replace it with Windows 2003 Terminal Server. Any suggestions on how to configure the hard drive? Multiple partitions? If yes, what should each contain? All suggestions/comments/ideas are greatly appreciated. Joe O'Connell _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com