[BNM] PC recommendations

[andrew holway]

Pretty much anything you buy is going to do the business especially if
you want to run xp. Remember XP would boot with I think 128 or 256 meg
of ram and a standard machine today has 2GB!

at the moment im using something akin to a Babbage difference engine
with a bit of linux scraped over the top and it flies. The new pc that
I'm running at work has 3 virtual machines (two xp and one Scientific
Linux on top of kubuntu linux) in 2GB ram. Its just crazy the power we
have now.

Even my Iphone is running what is pretty much a full BSD kernel.

The days of spending over a grand on a top of the range pc are just
gone even for designers

Unless you want to play games....or you like macs.

0.02


On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Simon Early <simon.early at gmail.com> wrote:
> This one looks the business - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143455
> however, I know nothing about the processors - any good?
> s./
> www.elromeralbarx.com
>
> 2008/6/2 Julian Blundell <old at w34u.com>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This crew seem fairly good.
>> http://efficientpc.co.uk/
>>
>> Jules
>>
>> 2008/6/2 Simon Early <simon.early at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Just about to go look for ready-made PCs, but thought it might be worth
>> > asking here for recommendations first.
>> >
>> > need a fairly quick PC. Dual core or better.
>> > decent graphics (but it's not a gamer PC)
>> > WinXP preferably (not that shite Vista)
>> > 2Gb memory
>> > HDD of 60Gb or better (not that important)
>> > flat screen monitor (again, not so important as to size/quality)
>> >
>> > key here is performance. Dont need sound particularly or DVD/RW ,
>> > cardreaders etc
>> >
>> > looking to spend 300 quid ish (ex VAT).
>> >
>> > I can go build one myself as I have done many times in the past, but is
>> it
>> > worth it with super deals out there?
>> > thoughts?
>> > cheers,
>> > s./
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