On Thursday 02 October 2008 22:25:11 Chris G wrote:
Does anyone have recommendations for buying a reasonable base unit (i.e. no screen/keyboard/mouse/etc.) I think I'd prefer an 'all Intel' system as that's any easy way to be (fairly) sure it will all work in Linux (though I'm willing to listen to alternatives).
I want something like - desktop/tower system, intel core two quad processor, 4Gb RAM (with space for more), 500Gb or thereabouts hard disk. My last system was a 'select the bits yourself' custom build from Komplett but they no longer exist. A company like them would be good.
On the occasions that we bought PCs at work (my colleagues were all Mac geeks) we bought them from DNUK. (I, of course, don't buy computers because I'm a student.)
They supply reasonably Linux compatible workstations (and will even pre-install some distros for you) and allow you to configure quite a bit (including having no keyboard, monitor etc.)
Cheers, Richard