Re: Low end desktop for EE tasks?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:44:49 -0700, Joerg wrote:

Hello Folks,

Old iron horse here starts making creaking noises and it's tired. It only
needs to do CAD, Gerber viewing, newsgroup, light SPICE sub-circuit sims
(the kind that runs in a few seconds). IOW, I am replacing the grunt works
PC.

Replacement should be <$500 sans monitor (won't give up my CRT, no way).
And absolutely no Vista which excludes most lines. Anyone's got
experiences with these lines?

Dell Vostro (desktop): Windows XP. 1GB RAM which is nice. No parallel port
which ain't very nice, and the card from the old one won't fit I guess.
Around $350.

HP Compaq DX2250: Windows XP. Has parallel port which is nice. 250MB RAM,
well, that ain't cutting it. Price seems to pop right up if you deviate
from pre-config. Otherwise around $350 as well.

Have Fry's build you one to your spec.
http://www.outpost.com

Cheers!
Rich



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