<html><head><base href="x-msg://5/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Be warned tho, in my experience Alibaba is a hang out for all kinds of scammers<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 11/12/2010, at 11:58 AM, Darryl Smith wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I know my computers were running close to the 300-400W each. They had dual redundant power supplies rated at 700W, and were running 3 or 5 x SCSI 10K RPM HDD’s and dual Xenon CPU’s. For reference I replaced the two dual processor boxes with a single Core 2 Duo E7500 machine (<a href="http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36503" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36503</a>). This is *<b>NOT</b>* server quality, but I accept that. This is for home for a firewall and application server and to try things out on. If the main board dies, I replace it. I bought a main board with video on board. Most of the time the video is in text mode for VMWare so there should be almost no speed decrease because of this. Given that this computer is about six years newer than the DELL’s, I had a speed increase too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">When looking for netbooks, keep an eye out on places like Sam’s Warehouse and the like.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">If you visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://aliexpress.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">aliexpress.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you can get a netbook for under $100 including postage. This is a 7” screen and runs windows CE or linux with a 300 MHz processor. 1 GHz processor and XP or Linux will be about $150 + $35 postage. For those that are unaware, Alibaba is sort of like eBay for Business. You can buy anything there. Aliexpress is like a Buy It Now for Alibaba, where many of the products are available for samples.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Darryl<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">---------</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Darryl Smith, VK2TDS POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 Int] - 02 9618 6459<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="http://www.radio-active.net.au/blog/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.radio-active.net.au/blog/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.radio-active.net.au/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.radio-active.net.au/</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OZAPRS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OZAPRS@aprs.net.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">OZAPRS@aprs.net.au</a><br><a href="http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.aprs.net.au/mailman/listinfo/ozaprs</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>