Hi I was going to reply to this tread earlier but felt that on the whole the advice given was valid. However, while I know a few people who have had Yamaha CD Writers and have them give up after a year or so, I'm really pleased with my HP7200I, Plus which is a 2 speed writer about two and a half years old and still going strong. OK its slow by today's standard but I'm buying a HP next time, when I do need to replace it. Because, HP offer's good support and it appears that their CD Writers are reliable. Gena gena at visson.freeserve.co.uk g.joyce at uclan.ac.uk http://www.visson.freeserve.co.uk Mobile Telephone Number 07951 196268 -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: 04 October 2000 02:42 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: new system shaping up What about hp USB 8200 plus? At 03:56 PM 10/3/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Chuck > >On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: >> I am springing for a new system with a 600 MHz Athlon processor and 64 MB > >I would highly recommend 128 mb of ram. You will not regret it. > >> ram, an SBlive sound card, two 8GB hard drives, a 56K external modem, and >> a NEC read/write CD drive all for under $1000 from folks I trust and have >> worked with for several years. Two loose ends I could use some feedback >> on: > >Good stick with the good guys. > >> The proposed video card is an "elsa" system. Anybody know if that is a >> problem down the road? I have no clear need for video display right now, >> but no point selecting a system with known problems. > >Unlike windows and there bad news screen readers, you don't need to worry >about video card incompatibilities. Unless you want to do cool things, >like watch tv on the console, I would just buy a cheep card. An s3 would >do the trick. I like using the frame buffer device. It's nice to have >tux come up on the screen when the kernel boots. The ati rage 128, the >matrox g200 and g400, s3 cards with a kernel patch, and the permedia2 >cards will support this. Most of us blinks probably don't care about it >but I use my computer as my tv. It's kind of nice to have a tv around for >friends to watch. > >> Second, the CD-ROM is a NEC >device - anybody have any information of a >> go-nogo nature on that choice? I think I just got religion when it comes >> to backup policy, and a CD drive with write capability is important in >> this new system. > >I wouldn't recommend a nec cd burner. Infact I have never heard a thing >about them. I would buy either the plextor or a yamaha. It's not worth >the hassle of trying to get something nonstandard to work. Kerry correcto >me if I am wrong but I have never seen nec's on the supported list of >drives for cdrdao or cdrecord. The plextor's and the yamaha's are >reliable drives. They aren't that expensive either. I know some people >who have never had problems with the hp's also. > >Hope this helped. >Frank > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
