[SWLUG] Re: Run from CD Linux

[Foeh Mannay]

I can vouch for this too - I had an '89 vintage Dell and it was a dream
to work on - single thumb screw to open the case, which was nigh on
impossible to put back wrongly, single screw HDD platform, no-screw
drive rails, RAM, processor & jumpers right out of the way of everything
for easy maintenance - it was great. And it (486SX 25, 12MB) out
performed my brother's PC (486DX2 66, 16MB) on a lot of things thanks to
its on board HDD controller & 1 meg graphics card - very well spec'd for
the time - suspect it would still be useful now!

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 07:22, Lyn David Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:30:47 +0000
> Steve Anderson <steve at twindx.com> wrote:
> 
> > Seconded. In all my years of having to open up PCs to fix and/or
> upgrade 
> > and/or clean muck out of, Dell PCs have been nothing but a joy to deal
> 
> > with. We have two at work, the most recent of which I had open today
> to 
> > install a second graphics card, and this involved pushing in two
> buttons 
> > on the sides and, um, opening it. No screws.
> 
> The vast majority of our corporate donors supply us with Dell optiplex
> machines, these have the two buttons to open, hard drives that sit on
> one screw connected caddies, CD ROMS that have no screw caddies - likewise
> floppy drives.  The expansion cards sit on a riser card that is removed
> with a leaver, the motherboard is attached with one screw... they are
> so easy to work on, and I am convinced this is the reason why they have
> sold so well to the corporate world, ease of working on!