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[Jim Allman <jim AT ibang.com>]

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,

  =jimA=

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Jim Allman
Interrobang Digital Media
http://www.ibang.com/
(919) 649-5760