Re: FN-FORUM: PC+monitor recommendations

date posted 12th August 2003 23:20

Gerard McGovern wrote:

> Anyone who buys a SATA drive at the moment is foolish. The drives are
> expensive for only a slight increase in performance plus the first
> generation drives have had some reliability issues. Give it six months/a
> year and it will be SATA all the way.

Highly moot point. An 80GB SATA drive is going to cost about £12-15
more than standard IDE so not a /huge/ difference. That said I
personally wouldn't go for one, and when specifying machines for
clients or putting quotes together we tend to steer people away from
SATA for the time being too.

> Also flat panel monitors without DVI are not worth the extra money over
> a CRT.

Again, highly subjective statement. I've got a Hitachi 17" TFT with
DVI here (now primary, was secondary until today) with an Iiyama
ProLite E430 (d-sub) as secondary, and for general work use there's no
problem at all with the non-DVI (OK, it's an Iiyama, not some pony old
make, but ...). The difference in desk space, heat and power
consumption over a 19" CRT makes it well worth it IMHO for my
situation - there's no general rule here. It all depends on what
you're going to be using it for, the environment you're using it in,
and what your primary guiding factors are.

Cheers,

Pete
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Peter Croft
PC Associates