On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:21:12AM +0100, Robin Melville wrote:
> At 3:03 pm -0700 4/7/00, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> >There might not be enough time for this, but:
> >
> >The local Fry's Electronics is having a 4th of July one day sale.
> >Featured is a 700MHz AMD Athlon barebones system, including
> >
> > Boxed AMD K7 CPU
> > mid tower ATX case with 300w power supply
> > and, most important, an installed motherboard
> >[...] One per customer, $399. Today only.
> >
>
> This makes me curse. I just had a quote for the same MB/chip/128Mb
> memory only, unboxed, for UKP 525 -- that's $850 0f anybody's money.
> Time for US prices to come to Europe in my humble opinion...
>
> All the best.
Picking up any old magainze [insight] I see (not incl. VAT) :
K7-700 : £119
Mobo : £111 [an equivalentish motherboard (they don't do FIC SD11's =( )]
case/psu : £50 [only a 250W PSU ?!]
TOTAL : £280
including VAT takes this up to £330...
At current exchange rates this is $498... straight out of a plainish
magazine, the UK price is only $96 more than Fry's offer.
Not really worth complaining about is it ?
And to be fair, I bought my case for £40 with a 300W PSU in it, so
I've no idea why these ppl (Insight) charge a tenner more for less ?
[Memory can be bought from anywhere (crucial.com/uk) for £93. or about £100
with VAT, but I don't see memory listed on that deal above.]
Anyway, this isn't very FreeBSD related, so I'll happily that the the
FIC SD11 I've got has been running fine with FreeBSD-4.0 lately.
I would recommend flashing to a newer BIOS though, as otherwise the SD11's
freeze up on >32GB IDE drives.
Steve
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
