best boxen?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> I got kind of off ATI for low-end applications (and I suppose if
> someone's cheap stuff is nasty are you really going to trust them
> when you're spending more?) with a bunch of cards that proved to be
> not so good AND to have driver problems.  They would pretty often
> cause video to fail just as Windows NT started the GUI, and they were
> really ugly when someone wanted to use 800 x 600 with large fonts
> because their eyes weren't very good.  We thought it was just the
> driver for a while, but these things didn't do much better with
> Linux, or with Microsoft-supplied drivers in 2000 or XP.
>
> And those HP Intel workstations Lonni suggested are indeed nice.  We
> got a bunch of Compaq Evo W4000s at PC prices about the time they
> started badging workstations as HP, and we have one of the XWs.  They
> seem like they have all the support and QC advantages that come with
> a big company, but none of proprietary hardware that so often comes
> with their servers and their cheaper desktops.

HP's Linux workstation support is very good, and I highly recommend their 
workstations for that reason alone.

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