[CJ-TA]

So, my 'old' PC was on it's last legs (with me) and I had become frustrated with it...

So... Dell's EOQ ended this past Monday... low and behold, they sent me a 50% off coupon for use on up to 5 'enterprise' level products.

The sales guy literally laughed when he came up with this quote.... he said that this was SO far below Dell's cost that it was insane. He also said that in 5 years of being at Dell, he's never seen a deal like this.

They came to my door this morning (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

(big picture warning)

http://www.2000transam.com/gallery2/v/Rand...ageViewsIndex=3

(make sure you scroll right)

I got together with a buddy of mine and bought 3 between the 2 of us.

For what you can't see, it's running 2 146gig 15k SAS drives on a Perc5/i

Take 1/2 of what you can configure it for on Dell's site. Add in 4 year onsite and accident protection = the weenar!

And JUST because I bought this a couple days before my race event, I was cursed with broken brakes... murphy's law.

This post has been edited by CJ-TA: May 2 2007, 02:29 AM

[CJ-TA]

I've been running Vista since some of the very earliest builds.

I love it.

This is my first shot at x64 and so far, so good. No issues have come up... yet.

I hear and see a lot of complaints about Windows ME2, being slow, etc.. and honestly, you need a powerful machine to make Vista run properly.. I won't deny that. Once you run it on a powerful box, you won't look back.

The weather, CPU meter, stock alerts, etc are all default widgets/gadgets for the Vista side bar... nifty little things.