RE: FLASH: OT: Design computer configuration---under $3500.

[Eric Dunham]

FWIW on the PC side,


My box has been really good to me for development of all kinds.


(1) ABIT BP6 Socket370 Mainboard ~$130

(2) Intel Celeron 500 PPGA	~$120

(2) Seagate Barracuda 28.0GB HDD ~$220

(2) Diamond Viper V770 Ultra TNT2 32MB ~$150

(1) Turtle Beach - Voyetra Montego A3D ~$50

(2) 21" Sony Trinitron GDM500PS ~$800

(1) 256MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM DIMM ~$400

(1) Creative 8432CDRW (8x4x32) ~$200


All of that together is rougly $3200, but I'm sure you might be able to find

some of the products for significantly cheaper than when I bought them

(http://www.pricewatch.com), I'm just quoting you the prices that I

remember. If you're going to go with a PC, I highly recommend ABIT boards

(disclaimer: I am not affiliated or involved, in any way, shape or form with

ABIT Computer Corp. or it affiliates :) because of their functionality,

reliability and their support for newer technologies (one of very first to

support and implement UDMA66 and the first to successfully produce a dual

Socket 370 board) http://www.abit.com.tw I've been actually very pleased

with the Celeron as a low-cost alternative to the Pentium line. If you're

running an operating system that supports SMP (Win2000 here) a setup like

mine is great. Granted, I would rather have dual PentiumIII-733s or even

moreso, dual G4-450s, but my pockets aren't quite that deep right now ;)  If

you have any questions...


HTH,

Eric Dunham



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Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: Design computer configuration---under $3500.



An excellent answer, the best I've seen unfortunately no one has really

answered the

actual question except Frederico and he only mentioned the MAC side.


on the PC side the only recommendations I would make are


LARGE HD: at least 10Gigs

Mucho RAM: Min 128

Speed: something in the PIII range

OS: Hearing good things about Win2K but have no real big problems with

Flash and Win98SE

Vid Card: running a Diamond Stealth II G460 with 8MB without problems with

Flash.


With a few other things like ergonomic keyboard (it's great to have), 32x

CD-ROM Drive, 15"

monitor, PII 333 processor and 56K v90 modem, my system cost $2400

(Canadian) with tax and that was the beginning of last year, so for $3500

you should be able to get a pretty sweet computer now.


Oh and a mouse with a scroll wheel... just doesn't work on the time line

tho in Flash unfortunately... but great for everything else just about.


*G* well that's my limited knowledge on hardware unfortunately.


At 10:20 PM 17/02/2000 -0800, dk wrote:

>Let's close the can of worms here..

>

>If you like Mac... use a Mac... If you like Win... Use Win...

>each have up's, and down's.

>

>

>Better yet... try to have experience in both,




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