Tszaaz wrote:
> Well, after asking my friends who all were hardware guys
> before becoming
> software programmers, I decided against Compaq for their use
> of cheap mother
> boards, Gateway for mixing and matching motherboards (you
> might get a good
> one, you might not) and settled on a Dell p3 700 with 256 meg
> and a geForce
> 64 meg video card.
Heh, that may just be the same make & model I've been saving up for. I'd
have to check the Dell catalog at home to be sure.
FWIW, I tell people price-wise to go with Dell or Gateway, quality-wise to
avoid Gateway like the plague. The box-of-chocolates feature is bad enough,
but I've never, ever seen any company's portables fail so quickly as
Gateways.
> One note, pay the little bit extra for a MS mouse with
> IntelliEye, it uses a
> light sensor instead of a trackball and is a HUGE improvement for very
> little money.
How often do you actually use the mouse while playing a bard? I mean other
than swapping instruments, as that is a very short distance for a mouse to
travel and even a lagging mouse can hack it.
BTW, congrats to Shada & Darkfox & Melaniel & anyone else who recently
dinged. Slyde & Gilgurth?? Sorry, bad memory, and only 64 MB of it to
boot. ;^)
Peace
Evulia