Re: OT-Need a new PUTER recommendations???

Rita,

Check this out http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl585/

Serious enough a recommendation for you, check out the 'best overall
performance award' for the AMD opteron too ;-)

If you don't thing they're selling check out your local internet service
provider, most will have at least a few Opteron based machines in use as
heavy duty servers.

Julian

"Rita Ä Berkowitz" <ritaberk2O04 @aol.com> wrote in message
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> Woohoo wrote:
>
>> Rubbish!
>
> Of course it is. I made a clarification in my previous post listing
> *VALID*
> reasons for selecting AMD, and by reading your last few recommendations
> that
> are extremely heavy on the gaming side I would guess you are an adolescent
> or an adult gamer.
>
>> Ok I appreciate there are some shysters out there but for everyone of
>> these stories there's someone out there who's sent their system back
>> to Dell 4 times and still doesn't have a working system.
>
> Yes, there are shysters out there to make quick bucks. All you have to do
> is talk to them and see how quickly their recommendations gravitate to
> AMD.
> Why, you ask? Because they have bigger profit margins on AMD than they do
> Intel. Do they take a customer's needs into consideration before
> recommending AMD? NO!
>
> As for sending a system back to Dell that is pure bull***. It depends on
> the service agreement you purchase with them. Most are on-site service
> contracts and most commercial clients have 24-hour on-site service. Then
> again, if you talk to the service rep properly and act like you know what
> you are talking about they will overnight free replacement parts with free
> return shipping on the old ones.
>
>> I appreciate you guys had a bad time but it's by no means typical.
>
> Who has had a bad experience? It sure as hell wasn't me. I've bought
> skids
> of off lease Dell, HP/Compaq servers and the ones that didn't work because
> of a bad PS, VRM, or whatever were cheerfully replaced for free after one
> call. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the skids of Dell laptops were a few
> of them get broken because they have ten more layers of laptops on them.
> Yes, fixed for free on my site. I love Dell!
>
>> AMD are excellent, not just for PC's but they have now been taken on
>> by the likes of supercomputer creators Cray.
>
> Of course they are, especially for novelty boxes and game machines. And
> the
> Cray you mention is old news and was built because they can. How many of
> them AMD supercomputers do you see in real world applications? ZERO!!!
>
>> The athlon 64 so worried intel that it more or less abandoned it's own
>> Intanium processor in the bulk of market and is now producing
>> AMD-64-alike pentium 4's and xeons.
>
> Nope! Intel didn't even blink. You mention the older Itanium that was a
> true dog, but don't forget to mention its replacement, the Itanium2, which
> set the standard for AMD to try to catch up with.
>
>> Irrespective of manufacturer of the overall system AMD are now the
>> front runners both in terms of performance, price and reliability.
>
> For gamers, overclockers, and MP3 servers the kiddies use in the basement
>
>> True! that has not always been the case but it is now! Get with it
>> people! ;-)
>
> What has changed? Serious governmental, industrial, and commercial
> customers DO NOT use AMD. Even Apple realizes the importance of Intel and
> is now migrating their whole platform to Intel. People in the know don't
> buy AMD if their livelihood depends on reliable equipment..
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> Rita
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