doukas@hart.Princeton.EDU (Dimitris Doukas) (01/25/91)
I have the following question for you: I am going to buy a 486-25MHz computer. Gateway2000 offers a good deal. The question refers to the video card and the hard drive. GW offers the "diamond SpeedStar" with 1Mb which they say outperforms every other brand name card. I had in mind to by the Orchid Prodesigner II 1024 x 768. Could anyone tell me if he/she had an experience with the diamond SpeedStar and in particular point out any well known incompatibilities (I am interested to run UNIX)? They also offer a WD 200MB 15ms IDE hard drive, but i am for a Conner 3204 200Mb IDE. Do you have any comments on that? Thanks a lot, --Dimitris PS: They charge 150$ for the Diamond and 700$ for the WD HD. -- ------ Dimitris Doukas (doukas@princeton.edu) ------
kipp@gistdev.gist.com (Kipp Kreft) (01/26/91)
doukas@hart.Princeton.EDU (Dimitris Doukas) writes: >I have the following question for you: > I am going to buy a 486-25MHz computer. Gateway2000 offers a good deal. > The question refers to the video card and the hard drive. GW offers > the "diamond SpeedStar" with 1Mb which they say outperforms every other > brand name card. I had in mind to by the Orchid Prodesigner II 1024 x 768. > Could anyone tell me if he/she had an experience with the diamond SpeedStar > and in particular point out any well known incompatibilities (I am interested to > run UNIX)? *--* I have one. It is fast, but haven't done anything strange with yet (or run UNIX). The Windows drivers seem good (1024x768x256 is a little small). *--* > They also offer a WD 200MB 15ms IDE hard drive, but i am for a > Conner 3204 200Mb IDE. Do you have any comments on that? >Thanks a lot, >--Dimitris >PS: They charge 150$ for the Diamond and 700$ for the WD HD. >-- >------ > Dimitris Doukas (doukas@princeton.edu) >------ *--* They have at least two 200Mb drives: Maxtor and Western Digital. I was told I would get the Maxtor, but they sent me the WD. I was unaware they even make hard drives, and I wanted the Maxtor, so I had Gateway replace it. (Also, the WD drive was much noisier.) I like the Maxtor. No info on the Connor. Kipp kipp@gistdev.gist.com