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Buying the GX110: Any objections?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Apr 19 16:16:39 2000
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:16:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: owls@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
I have just conferred with Greg Hudson and Thomas Bushnell and we are
rock solid comfortable with the GX110 testing we have done.
Should we tell Marine to go ahead and buy six of these machines in place
of the order for the six GX1's that I put on hold? (Reminder: That
order was for a couple QuickStations, most of which would go into N42
conference rooms.)
The configuration I recommend we buy is the GX110 config on the web page:
http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/linuxconfig.html
I have chatted with several folks about whether we should spend $53 more
for a single 256M DIMM. Nobody has a strong feeling one way or the
other. I am recommending that we do NOT.
My rationale: The CPU was a small upgrade with a clear end-user value.
The value of the single DIMM is only realized if we upgrade systems
before their 3 year lifespan ends, and if the upgrade entails throwing away
memory. We're actually going to 256M earlier than most. The chance
we'd upgrade seems very small. Next year we may buy lots of systems,
and may decide to go with a single-DIMM solution, and spread 128M
DIMMs around to them if we take that low-probability upgrade option.
Bottom line: Should we tell Marine to buy 6 of these, or discuss this
at Owls on Monday?
-wdc
