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Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations [message #53912 is a reply to message #53911]

Tue, 08 May 2007 12:17

Christopher Thom
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Registered: October 2006

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Quoth Jean H.:

>> I am buying my next linux workstation, and other than dollars, are
>> there other parameters that I should take into account? My main
>> unknown is vendor. Our company likes Dell very much, but I wonder
>> whether HP or IBM machines are better engineered or built for
>> scientific computations.
>
> hum... Dell... we have nothing but problems with them... every computer
> we have (a dozen) had some problems within 2 years of purchase
> (motherboard, fan, memory etc) and the service is worst than bad (in
> Canada at least)....

I would second that. I have had only terrible experiences with dell tech
support, both in the US and australia. They actually actively hindered me
from solving technical problems created by their cutting corners on
hardware.

They do often come out as the cheapest option...but do your homework
carefully, down to the chipset level at least. It may just have been a
confluence of unlucky circumstances for me, but i swore off buying their
computers. YMMV.

cheers
chris

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		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Christopher Thom on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:25
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: David Fanning on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:07
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Mirko on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:00
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: JD Smith on Tue, 08 May 2007 14:35
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Jeff N. on Tue, 08 May 2007 14:02
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: David Fanning on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:35
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Christopher Thom on Tue, 08 May 2007 12:17
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Jean H. on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:58
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: George N. White III on Thu, 10 May 2007 14:16
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Mike[2] on Wed, 09 May 2007 13:48
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: JD Smith on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:44
		Re: OT: recommendations for high preformance workstations By: Andrew Cool on Tue, 22 May 2007 16:51

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