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Re: cheap dual-boot desktop recommendations?



 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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