[vox-tech] booting off cd help
Peter Jay Salzman
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 4 May 2003 12:27:17 -0700
no offense, but i don't think so...
begin Eric D. Pierce <epierce@surewest.net>
> e.g.
>
> (Intel 845G chipset)
>
> http://www5.pc.ibm.com/us/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/_830725U
>
> IBM list price (new): $899
> ITXchange price (new): $641
>
> (or go to http://www.pc.ibm.com/support and type the seven
> character part# {minus the hyphen} into "quick path")
>
> As Linux person you are presumably "wasting" some money
> buying an IBM desktop since Win2K-Pro is included, but IBM
> give's you rights to a Win2K recovery CD (factory image)
> that you might find useful for something.
>
> note that IBM has developed a bad habit of shipping sucky
> (feature deficient) standard keyboards and mice (IMO)
> recently.
>
> regards,
> ep
>
>
> > did the system come with a a hardware diagnostic program?
> >
> > fwiw, IBM desktops comes with this: http://www.pc-doctor.com
> >
> > http://www.itxchange.com/scripts/plookup_ibm.idc?pr=03+-+Desktop++-+Pentium+4
>
>
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