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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please suggest "best" FreeBSD workstation <= $4000
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:27:18 -0700
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U. Kislev wrote:
> I am allowed to spend up to US$ 4000 on a FreeBSD capable system
> It would have to boot Windows95 too. Monitor included.
>
>This PC use in descreasing priority:
>(1) software development,

If you're using it for development work, then you want a nice monitor. 
Find out what a nice 17" monitor costs, at the minimum, or a 21" if
you're truly serious about your display hardware.  Then spend whatever
you have left on a P6/200 system with as much memory and hard disk space
as you can afford. :-)

It's pretty simple, really.  You want CPU power and display real-estate.
Everything else is just what you can afford after you've priced those
two components.  P6 (Pentium Pro) machines were pretty cheap last month,
though I'm not sure what the prices are at the moment.  Memory and P6
prices have been somewhat volatile this month.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project