Re: Low end desktop for EE tasks?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:25:10 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:44:49 -0700, Joerg

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.

Why go cheap? Your time to hassle with cheap crap isn't worth the savings.

And LCD monitors rock!

The last few Dells I've bought have been increasing garbage; never again.


Yeah, but you're a leprechaun. Not all of us have a pot of gold to dip
into. )-;

Thanks,
Rich

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