Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 07:26:37 11/02/01
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Mr. Boco, http://www.buy-atlas.com/amd_xp_line.html Atlas Computers seem to give good value for the buck. The service department is not as good as Dell or Gateway or NEC but the prices are much better. You will probably be happy with a nice 1700 or 1800 Mhz AMD XP machine. Get yourself a nice big monitor; 19 to 22 inch, and you will have one nice system. Get a good mouse and a smooth keyboard if you type a lot. The Atlas machine comes with StarOffice 5.2 but you can splurge and get the MS Office Pro package if you want to jack up the price but I would choose more memory instead. Enjoy, Tim On November 01, 2001 at 15:21:31, J. C. Boco wrote: >I found a nice 1.7 GHz Athlon XP system with 256M of RAM, I think the S kind not >the rambus. With this system I'll get a flat-screen LCD moniter. Total price >is $1450. > >The place is MicronPC.com. Since I don't venture into the computer world much, >I'm only comfortibly familiar with Gateway (which my wife and I use now), and >Dell. > >Does anyone have any opinions on the reliability of this company? > >PS: I'll get the Windows XP operating system. I hear this program is massively >bloated with "stuff". How much of my RAM will I lose to the operating system? >Should I get more RAM? An upgrade to 512 will cost $200, which I don't fancy >very much. > >PPS: I don't know whether I'll be using HIARCS in the Fritz interface, or >Fritz7. I would imagine if I use the former I probably won't need the extra RAM >since it's a slow searcher.
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