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To: Kirk © who wrote (51109)	8/24/2001 1:13:59 PM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

I opted for Windows 2000, since it is reputed to be very stable.

To: Kirk © who wrote (51109)	8/24/2001 8:21:45 PM
From: mitch-c	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

PowerEdge is Dell's family name for servers. Desktops: - Dimension is aimed at home or single users. - OptiPlex is their corporate/business line. - Precision is the workstation (numbercruncher) line. Laptops - Inspiron is the Dimension equivalent in laptops. - Latitude is the OptiPlex equivalent. My home machine is a P3/500 Precision Workstation 410. Among other fine features, it has two built-in SCSI controllers. On parts and pieces, Ex-Dilbert is basically correct. Drive access is measured in milliseconds, while chip access is in nanoseconds. The drives are the bottleneck devices. Regarding SCSI vs. EIDE drives - check access times and transfer rates. The SCSI-3 ULTRA-160 standard shovels bits at 160MB/sec, the EIDE UDMA/100 only pushes them at 100MB/sec. However, most PC's do not come with SCSI controllers "free" as they do with EIDE controllers, so it's a cost/benefit trade. Regarding memory - I usually double the recommended OS minimum. If you do heavy multitasking, put in at least half of the max possible, if not more. Ex-D's rule of thumb that heavy disk activity shows a memory shortage is basically correct (though poorly written apps or print activity may flog the disk regardless of available RAM). - Mitch (nearly caught up).