On March 9, 2003 10:55 am, Peter Christensen wrote: > My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't > boot from the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into > bios-setup mode.) I don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was > so slow that it's probably time to replace it. Temporarily I'm > using a borrowed computer with Win95. Yuck! > > For my next computer I want to make sure that everything is > compatible with Linux. I searched this list and found a few posts > about buying computers. They were a little old (one or two years), > so I'm wondering if the situation has changed. A few people > recommended the AMD Athlon processor over Pentiums. And Matrox for > video, Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound. Any thoughts on this? > > I've heard that computers nowadays are built with the cheapest > possible components, so I was wondering if building it myself would > be a good idea. It might not be much cheaper than buying one from > Dell or Gateway, but if the result was a better quality machine it > might be worthwhile. So far I've only had to replace broken > components in my Gateway, such as the hard drive and CDrom, also > added memory. Building a computer would be a challenge, but I > think I'd enjoy doing it... > > Peter Christensen
I would definetly try building a computer yourself. If you shop around for parts you can make them cheaper than any system you can buy and every part will be exactly what you want. It isn't hard at all. If you're not a complete technical klutz then you'll have no trouble at all. If you've had a look around your computer and replaced a few parts it's pretty simple. Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
