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On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:44:53AM -0400, Seth Gordon wrote: > I'm looking for a new desktop machine for my wife and I to use. While > we use Windows as little as possible, we do have a few things that won't > run anywhere else, so we need something that we can dual-boot into > Windows[*]. The most CPU-intensive stuff we're likely to be doing is > running OpenOffice and editing YouTube-length videos of our kids. The > less we have to spend, the better. > > My employer has a corporate-discount deal with Dell, but for the > machines cheap enough for me to consider buying, the member discount is > only about 3%. > > What models should I be looking at? What should I avoid? > > [*]I would rather have Windows running inside a Xen or QEMU virtual > machine within Linux, but I think that would cost too much.
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