Bob:
I finally dared and took a gamble on these things myself. I'm getting bare
bones that only need the CPU, RAM, and hard drive. Everything else is included
in the box, keyboard, mouse, the last ones even had speakers. Everything is
onboard, modem and NIC as well. The last one I used had a slot 1 and 370
socket, can handle Celerons and PII & PIII in both socket flavors. They're from
Alton and/or PC Chips. I know, not the best but the price is very right.
What are they good for? For workstations, not a "real workstation" if you will,
but a workstation in the sense that the user will be doing spreadsheets or word
processing all day long in an office, that kind of thing. Some games can be
played but I would not sell one of these to someone who wants to play games.
I have almost a dozen of these out there now, so far only one had a problem and
it was the CD drive, they exchanged it for me and that was that. Some are
connected to networks, some stand alone. They are being used for office apps,
day trading, real estate programs, on one of them the guy actually plays Flight
Simulator 98 rather nicely.
Go for it, just have a back up plan. They're cheap enough that you can buy a
replacement one if one needed to be returned for repairs.
HTH,
Jose
Bob Chapel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to put together several machines for my clinic and have noticed some
> very favorable prices on the new breed of "all in one" boards....some from
> decent manufacturers others from questionable folks....
>
> Wondering if anyone has experience with these....could save me a lot of
> configuration time and the price is right for what you get....recognize
> that with the paucity of extra expansion slots I could face real problems
> should any of the onboard functions break down but I only need these boards
> to function reliably for @ 2 years....**reliability is the word here. We
> have been using Compaq all in ones for some years and they have functioned
> flawlessly.... Suggestions?....Recommends?? ...experiences negative or
> positive?? (Looking seriously at Shuttle at the moment)
>
> thanks,
> Bob Chapel
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