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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Jim Allman wrote:
> Advice and/or tesimonials wanted...

Had good experiences with the Shuttle systems.. had one as a sandbox and 
protable gaming station for a while... good stuff

> 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
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