[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Craig Ringer]

Brock Woolf wrote:

> Most of my x86 stuff has died, but the Apple just keeps on going.
> However if you are on barebones budgetary constraints, buy an x86 PC,
> provided you won't ever upgrade the hardware, because it is expensive
> on Intel when you add up your costs. 


My experience is that I've had x86 crap and PPC Apple crap. I've also 
had fantastic, reliable x86 hardware and fantastic, reliable Macintosh 
hardware. The eMac seems pretty dodgy, for example, as will "cheapest 
parts" PCs (especially if you get a cheap PSU). On the other hand, the 
POST's G4s are dead reliable (as was our G3, since sold) and so are our 
quality x86 servers and desktops.

To a fair extent it seems to depend on what range you buy from. A cheap 
and nasty machine is a cheap and nasty machine no matter what 
instruction set it happens to use.

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Craig Ringer