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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!super.zippo.com!zdc!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cs.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EIDE support? (possible dumb question) Date: 22 Oct 1996 16:10:14 -0400 Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <54j9n6$9pv@harvey.cs.umd.edu> References: <53tsln$3je@harvey.cs.umd.edu> <54de6g$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: harvey.cs.umd.edu In article <54de6g$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) wrote: >> I'm looking at buying a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro machine; but I'd like to >> forgo SCSI. >What do you need the i686 for? That's ridiculous. >If you care for performance, pick SCSI first, make sure you've got >enough RAM for your intended applications, and if you've got money >left, consider the i686. >I've seen an i586/90 notebook with an IDE drive, it `feels' about the >same as an i486/66 with a good SCSI controller and drive. Go figure. J"org, I appreciate your input, but the premium for a Pentium Pro is less than what you would think, especially in the U.S. I'm paying about $1650 for 180MHz system w/o monitor and graphics card. I do intend to get a PCI SCSI card as well, but going SCSI will cost at least another $400, and it's easier to upgrade to SCSI than upgrade the motherboard and CPU. -Jerry -- EMAIL: jerryw@cs.umd.edu Jerry Wieber WWW: http://www.tekamah.com/~jerry/