Re: I Want to identify best Linux approach, and any pitfalls.
- From: "David L. Johnson" <david.johnson@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:52:40 -0500
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:08:03 -0600, Dances With Crows wrote:
> With computer hardware, you generally get what you pay for. There is
> usually a positive correlation between how much you pay for a piece of
> hardware and how well it'll work. Given that, you *never* buy the
> cheapest piece of hardware you see via http://pricewatch.com/ unless you
> have much more time than money.
OTOH, if you buy bleeding-edge hardware prepare for more headaches. I
recently got an AMD64 machine with a SATA hard drive, which caused a few
headache problems, but now is humming along quite nicely.
> If your local supplier "doesn't do AMD", fire your supplier. AMD just
> has too many advantages in bang/buck to put up with one vendor's crap.
>
Me, too.
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