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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!cmcl2!rockyd!not-for-mail From: Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu> Subject: Re: Please suggest "best" FreeBSD workstation <= $4000 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dnn.rockefeller.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <DzE1u6.GJt@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> Lines: 29 Sender: notes@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Rockefeller University X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960930] References: <53rflp$o27@lex.zippo.com> <326269E6.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:46:53 GMT Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: : 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. : 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. :-) I don't think you can get a good P6/200 system with sufficient disk and memory, plus a good 21" monitor, for under $4000. It will be close. Under $5000, would definitely be doable. I'm a Gateway fan, bought 20+ of them over the years and have been very happy. I would suggest getting Gateway's P6/200 package, ditch the EIDE drives and get SCSI (I think Gateway will sell you an Adaptec 2940UW plus a decent SCSI drive, I'd suggest a 2Gb), and be careful about getting a video card that will work well with Xfree. Also get 64Mb of memory. You can configure a system on the Web at http://www.gw2k.com. I just did and the above came to $4034, with their Vivitron 21" color monitor. If that is the Sony, then it is not bad. I included a SCSI CDROM. You can play with the configuration to go under $4000... I'm a little concerned about the cache on the system. It appears to be only the 256KL2 on chip cache. Have to check this out...