[_] Cheap as Chips
Miles Blomfield
mblomfield at mzl.com
Mon Mar 3 22:20:10 GMT 2008
remember Peter - to misquote David Dickinson (with who I had the 'pleasure' of working) "the only thing as cheap as chips - is chips" mb -----Original Message----- From: Steve Roome [mailto:steve at pepcross.com] Sent: 03 March 2008 13:25 To: underscore at under-score.org.uk Subject: Re: [_] Cheap as Chips On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:50:51PM +0000, andrew holway wrote: > I'm sure that it will be a quality build :) I have learnt the hard way > about buying hardware that cheap. Still, at only £300 to replace ALL the hardware and possibly only 6 months work to replace the software that vanishes when the disk controller blows up, machines sets itself on fire etc... ... it works out as cost effective with staff costing about 7 or 8 pence per hour. Steve > Ta > > Andy > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Clive Hunt <clive.hunt at gmail.com> wrote: > > got a link for this one peter? > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Peter Marshall <marshallp at sparkdata.co.uk> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hurrah for Moore's Law. Dell offering quad core desktop for £309 (+ Vat > > > but shipping free) - could do with some more RAM, but with Crucial doing 2Gb > > > for 25 quid, it can't be that bad... > > > > > > Peter Marshall > > > Spark! Data Systems Ltd > > > Quay Side > > > 40-58 Hotwell Road > > > Bristol BS8 4UQ > > > T: 0117 915 9673 > > > F: 0709 231 4824 > > > E: peter at sparkdata.co.uk<mailto:peter at sparkdata.co.uk> > > > W: http://www.sparkdata.co.uk/ > > > -- > > > underscore_ list info/archive -> > > > http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore > > > > > -- > > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore > > > > -- > underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore -- underscore_ list info/archive -> http://www.under-score.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/underscore