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Re: [sheflug] Recommendations for Computer Suppliers?

>On Thursday 21 Apr 2006 10:51, Dave Holden wrote:
>>On Thursday 20 Apr 2006 20:30, Seb James wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:42 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
>> > I'm looking for a new, fully-assembled home computer and plan to install
>> > Debian on it myself.  I'd prefer not to have to tinker with the hardware.
>> >
>> > Does anyone want to recommend any suppliers, preferably local or
>> > regional, that sell GNU/Linux-compatible computers?
>>
>> www.dnuk.co.uk are in Manchester. They got a good review in Linux User
>> and Developer, but I've not bought a box from them yet.
>>
>> Seb
>
>For *quality* gear I would recommend transtec.
>
> Dave.

Back in 2001-2 I bought 7 DNUK machines and thought they were brilliant.  
They were very helpful and happy to setup the machines as dual boot Windows 
& Linux (RedHat) as per my exact instructions, and the price was reasonable.  
They came with 3 years Collect & Return Warranty and when the MB died on 
one a couple of years later it was collected and returned within 3 days (amazing!)
However, over the last few months 4 of them have expired (2 more MBs and 2 
exploding Power Supplies).  They were all 4.0-4.3 years old, I have one left at 4.5, 
and the other 2 are slightly younger (I'm waiting with bated breath for them to 
reach the magic 4 years.)  Of course, by this age they're getting a bit long-in-the-tooth 
performance wise, but I have plenty of Viglen & Dell machines around that are lots 
older and still hobbling along.

I agree with Dave about Transtec, very high quality and good service (I have a 
server from them that's still going strong after 5 years), and I've bought lots of SCSI 
drives from them for our Unix boxes.  They prefer SuSE, but will do RedHat.  
Bit pricier  than DNUK but still very reasonable and always helpful.  All the hardware is 
shipped out of Germany, so not very local (UK sales & help people though.)

Cheers,  Jan
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