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Subject: Re: To Mr. Hyatt. Workstations

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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