pmisra@desire.wright.edu (Pradeep Misra,354A Fawcett,8733663,) (03/08/91)
I would really apprciate some advice from the PC Gurus on the following configuration for a 486/33 PC that I am planning on buying from GATEWAT GATEWAY 2000 33MHz 486 VGA 64 K cache RAM (25 ns) 8 MB RAM (70 ns chips) 1.2 MB 5.25" EPSON floppy drive 1.44 MB 3.5" EPSON floppy drive 300 MB ESDI Hard Drive (18ms) 10 M/Bits DTR ULTRASTOR 32 K CACHE controller Diamond Speedstar 16 BIT VGA board with 1 MB (1024x768) 16" NANAO Monitor (1024x768) (non-interlaced) GATEWAY 2000 101 Key keyboard DOS 4.01 or 3.3 Microsoft Windows 3.0 Microsoft Mouse PHOENIX BIOS Price: $5945.00 They are also offering 120 MB tape back up for $295.00 (how important is a tape back up --you can tell I am new to this game!) Money is not a concern here. What I would like to know is your opinions on various components that are being used in this configuration. I know that so far GATEWAY folks have had a very satifactory track record. So I am not worried about the company itself but are these components very reliable. If not, which ones should be changed and what will be a better brand name for them!! I thank you in advance and if the information is of general interest, I will certainly post a summary. I read the news group regularly but in the interest of avoiding a clutter on the newsgroup, you can mail to me directly. Pradeep Misra pmisra@eve.wright.edu pmisra@valhalla.cs.wright.edu