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By Shawn Wallbridge - I send them to Ghassan at ACECA. After that, they are on their own. You get what you pay for, I am not going to spec out a machine or make a recommendation. shawn On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jeremy Lang wrote: > I am not getting tied into lifetime support by building it for him. >> While they're very configurable, and several people I know have tried them, > I've never ended up with a positive recommendation for a game-PC type > company (i.e. every other page in the back of Maximum PC/CPU...). Those > machines never seem to be built for long-term stability... >> If they've got money to burn, HP or Supermicro Workstation is a no-brainer, > but that's rare. So I usually lean towards telling them consumer/gamer HP > or Dell XPS but I swear the configuration options are dumber and dumber > every time I look! If I get there through this link it's a great price but > I can't configure XYZ, and through this link a monitor is bundled in and I > can configure nothing, meanwhile *this* link...--ALL FOR THE *SAME* DAMN > PRODUCT--- >> So what's your go-to answer? With adequate to great support, and LA local > wouldn't hurt...? >> ______________ > Jeremy M. Lang > it4vfx > ?????????????? >> To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to > mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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