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[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 06:10:55PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> At some point you need to start looking at the trade off of time/
> effort/ shipping/ scrounging of old hardware. You can buy a brand new
> Dell complete with 2.4Ghz Celeron, 17in monitor, 80gb, 256MB,
> audio/speakers, Windows, net, mouse, CDROM, keyboard, color printer
> and 1 year service/support delivered on your door step for $265USD.
> The Dell is hassle free. The parted together system has a lot of
> hassles. Hassle free is a very important consideration in these
> environments.

Organisations like Computerbank (www.computerbank.org.au) put out
hundreds or thousands of systems a year.  So you're proposing that
they somehow find an extra $US265,000, let's say, to buy new Dell
systems, rather than keep relying on donations of old PII and
PIII-class machines?

> If Mbeki would get rid of his 600M ZAR plane you could buy 344,500 of
> these systems. Dell would probably even give you a discount big
> discount for educational use.

Maybe you should let him know that.

> I have given away dozens of old computers. About half the time I
> wonder if I did the recepient a favor given how much trouble they have
> keeping it running.
> 
> yes I know the kids don't have the $265, etc, etc, etc...

Right.