>Hi,
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>Here at the office we (the developers team) have been offered to receive new PCs. For the last three years we have been working with IBM PC300 GLs (PII 250MHZ, 128MB Ram, 4GB+20GB ATA 33 hard disks) so this announce really makes us happy. Now the question is, what configuration should we ask for? First that came to our mind is a Soyo SY-7VCA2 mainboard (PC-133 and ATA-100 ready), PIII 933Mhz (133Mhz FSB), 128 PC-133 Ram, 30GB ATA-100 hard disk. Any opinions or suggesitons about this configuration? Would be an Athlon-based configuration better and still reliable enough? Our primary work is VFP and web-based development, and we also use SQL Server. We are currently using Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a.
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>Thanks for yous comments!

Fausto,

I'll even add to what everyone said here...

1. I agree Athlon 1.x + is a great chip, and cheaper than the anemic P-4

2. I also say Win 2000 or nothing!

3. 19-Inch monitor really helps

My additional suggestion would be a CD-RW.... with Adaptech DirectCD this actually works just like an extra hard drive, you can store stuff here, and move large data to home or whatever. Better than a 100meg zip.

And, a DVD drive... lets you load MSDN library to your network much faster, or, if you acess from the DVD less disk swapping.

If you can, order OPTICAL mice... They work great and don't clog up every few weeks.


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The AWESOMEST would be to get all the above, but the CPU be a laptop with a 15+ inch monitor and a docking station. This way you can take the laptop to meetings, on the road, home, and still have all your work, tools, software and everything right with you. (This is what I am pushing for our next upgrade, The managers got them but feel it is not worth the money for the workers... ha!)

If you can swing it, get them to get a wireless network hub and cards for the laptops so you can go work outside on a nice day... <g>

BOb