Peter Robinson,

1) The best processor for developer - Pentium III-600/512Kb 133 Mhz Bus
(chipset on Motherboard - Intel with support 133 Mhz and DIMM must
support 133 Mhz)
2) If you have money - buy SCSI disk (Ultra Wide 80Mb/s - 10000 rpm)
(if you have not money - 20GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) Fujitsu
3) What about monitor ? You have one ?



>I want to buy a new development system before the end of the year. I want to have Windows 2000, Office 2000, and a CD-RW drive. Preferably a ZIP drive too. This DELL system looks like a "best buy".
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> Dimension® L Series, Intel® Celeron™ Processor at 600 MHz
> Memory: 256MB SDRAM
> Video Card: Intel 3D AGP Graphics IV
> Hard Drive: 20GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
> Operating System: NEW Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
> Network Card: Integrated Intel® 10/100 Ethernet Controller
> Modem: V.90/56K PCI DataFax Modem for Windows, NT
> CD/DVD ROM Drive: 8x/4x/32x CD-RW Drive
> Sound Card: Soundblaster 64V Integrated
> Speakers: harman/kardon Speakers
> Bundled Software: Microsoft® Office 2000 Small Business
> Zip Drives: 100MB Zip Drive with One Disk
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> Price: $1,146 (with $100 discount which expires 12/5/00)
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>The question is how likely is this system to exhibit the Win2K-VFP file corruption bug? Perhaps Ed will have an opinion on this.
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>The other question is: can I expect that the bug will be fixed before long (a few months)?
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>I've priced some SCSI systems and they come out at least $500 more.
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>I'm also open to having a local computer shop put together a system.
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>All opinions welcome.
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>Peter Robinson