try www.accessmicro.com for some great bundle prices on 'bare-bones'
systems, motherboards, processors. They're in California - I've
bought from them before (no other connection) and the quality and
selection is great.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Dacey
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:29 PM
> To: Olympus Mailing list
> Subject: Re: [OM] aaaaaaah, I'm soooooo weak!!!!!
>
>
> On 9/20/01 1:15 AM, "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > $600 is the price for the whole system with keyboard,
> mouse, 4-8-32 CD
> > R/W, 1.4G Athlon, 266MHz FSB Mother board, 256MB DDR RAM,
> IBM 40GB DMA
> > 100HD, Lan card, 32M TNT2 64 video card, casing and power supply.
>
> Wow, definitely some price differences. I did a quick workup
> from a local
> shop's site that usually has good prices. I'm on the east
> coast of Canada
> and a similar system would easily run me around $900 US.
>
> > I'm very happy with my 500MHz K6-2 for office work or even
> handle 27MB
> > (max from my LS2000 at 24 bit color) photo editing. The
> problem was I
> > just bought a Digital Video before a trip with my family. I found we
> > did very bad on the videos and they need lots of editing and adding
> > background music to make them better. Then I bought a Studio DV for
> > capture and editing, at the beginning I try to use my
> 500MHz K6-2 but
> > life is short I can wait so long for the processing time. Especially
> > when I want to generate MPEG-1 video to be burn into VCD.
> It took over
> > ten times of time to generate (i.e. one hour of video need over ten
> > hours to generate the MPEG file). To be more reasonable I need a
> > 5000MHz PC but I can't so I bought what I can afford.
>
> Yep, digital video is an even worse hog than digital photo.
> I'm trying to
> convince myself that if I upgraded my mac then I'd do more
> digital video and
> 3-d work, but it's hard to say! As it is though, photoshop
> runs fine on my 3
> year old 266mhz G3, I recently upgraded the ram to 384mb and
> now it's great
> for working with 50mb files.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm at one of those nasty catch-22 situations
> where I need to
> get some better gear in order to get paid to do this sort of
> work but I
> can't afford the gear unless someone was paying me to do that
> sort of work!
>
> --
> Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>
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