[internetworkers] Looking for a "PC mini"
Jim Allman
jim at ibang.com
Thu Mar 17 10:30:14 EST 2005
Advice and/or tesimonials wanted...
I'm in the market for a basic Win XP machine, mainly for QuickBooks and
cross-platform testing of Flash apps and websites. I do most of my work
on the Mac, and I'd forgotten what a blizzard of specs/parts/choices
there are when shopping for a PC. I'm really not interested in pimping
hardware. I just want a solid, affordable system and decent support
when it counts.
Basic requirements:
- fast enough CPU to last a few years
- Win XP Professional (or is XP Home good enough?)
- 512 MB RAM (enough for basic operation?)
- 80 GB hard disk
- CD-R/DVD (read-only)
- no keybd/mouse/display
- quiet is important!
- small case would be great
- the cheaper, the better (but not junk)
These are the candidates I'm considering so far. I'm surprised there's
not something cheaper in this class:
Shuttle G Series
(http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BuildXPC.aspx?id=1099#)
Shuttle L Series
(http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BuildXPC.aspx?id=1113#)
Dell Dimension 4700
(http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/
dimen_4700c?c=us&l=en&s=dfh)
Any advice welcome! Thanks in advance,
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Jim Allman
Interrobang Digital Media
http://www.ibang.com/
(919) 649-5760
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