Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:13:42 08/14/03
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On August 13, 2003 at 23:56:58, Mark Young wrote: >On August 13, 2003 at 22:32:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 13, 2003 at 21:00:41, William Dozier wrote: >> >>>Dear Mr.Hyatt, What Do you think about Dell 6500 WorkStation, >>>with the XEON 3.06 Gz processor? Perhaps I could have done better >>>by buying another machine, and paying a little less, But i was very >>>please with its performance in the area of math computations, solving >>>complex math problems,encryptions software,photoshop, 3D rendering,and >>>CAD, and im shure it well in chess programs, also the single >>>processor does employ hyperthreading......besides all computer >>>the high/in and low/in has its good points as well as the bad >>>points. No matter what man makes, it will break/down sooner or later, >>>because man is not perfect, and the things that he makes or produce, >>>will break/down eventually. To take it a little further, if one >>>does not have eletricity to run these computers, or any/thing elese >>>that runs on eletricity, it becomes worthless. The only thing >>>that is for shure and you can depend on.....is DEATH ! >>> >>> Have a nice day every/one. >>> >>> Bill Dozier. >> >> >>Dell makes good stuff. I have a couple of hundred dell machines in various >>labs in our department, so we obviously are happy with their products. My >>cluster is a Dell product, and the dual 2.8 xeon in my office is also a Dell. > >Yes I agree. > >I burned out my hard drive on one of my dell systems that I used to run my >chess computer matches. It does nothing but run chess matches 24/7. After about >11 month of this abuse I burned out my hard drive. I think it had one to many TB >hits on the hard drive.:) Dell came to my home that week and I was back up and >running. That's why we deal with them. When something fails, I call the tech rep, he sends me the part FedEx overnight and we are back up by 9 the next morning. With 200+ machines, that is not that uncommon an event for something to go belly up. Particularly the little floppy disk drives they use today.
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