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We are looking at purchasing several workstations for testing/development use but we are not completely sure what to buy. I would like to get your opinions or compatibility issues with the following machines (basic specs included)
Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 530 3GHz with HT 1GB DDR2 Non-ECC RAM 128MB ATI Radeon X300 (DVI and VGA adapter for Dual Monitor) 40GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive CDRW/DVD Broadcom GbNIC
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HP Compaq dc5000 P4 3GHz with HT 1GB DDR RAM Intel Extreme graphics2 (64MB equivalent) 40GB PATA 100 7200RPM Hard Drive DVD-ROM (Linux) Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit NIC
My personal opinion is to get the HP, partially because it comes with Mandrake 9.2, so I know it works with Linux. The Dell comes with WXP. Any opinions and/or known problems would be nice so that I have a good base to recommend either one. - --
Nathaniel Hall, GSEC Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
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