On 07 Jul 13:16, Richard Lewis wrote:
At Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:05:31 +0100, James Freer wrote:
I want to get a new PC - what would be the best buy?
I wondered about this one http://www.ebuyer.com/product/193626
Perhaps some of you build PCs in which case can you do better buy than this?
Obviously to run linux [inc compiz which i haven't been able to do on current PC].
I had thought about a laptop but i thought they ran a bit slower than a desktop for a comparable spec.
My last desktop was from DNUK http://www.dnuk.com/ and they were pretty good. They're customisable, including the OS. Not quite the cheapest, but their lowest spec machines come within your budget.
I'm afraid I can't say whether or not you'd have a good experience with them.
Have dealt with DNUK back in the days when I was part of tsw (now, unfortunately defunct, I blame James Taylor for that though - it was the student web at UEA) - they donated us a desktop machine back in the day, the only problem was that it sort-of relied on some proprietary redhat only drivers for some of the hardware... though, us being us (and therefore crazy) did sort it out and get everything (more or less) working with debian stable (it was a good little machine, named pika.stu...). Have they stopped shipping hardware that is difficult to get working with anything that isn't the supplied OS yet? Otherwise, good company that were (back then) easy to get hold of.
More recently I've had dealings with Transtec - but only for server kit - it's all been fairly much alright though, and fairly cheap. They'll also build to your spec, IIRC.
Thanks,