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Dell server 99+vat free delivery WTF?

redbaron
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Wow! That's not bad! :thumbup:

Add delivery at £50 and a VAT to everything and it's close to £200 , but could still be worth a look for some people

Doesn't look so good when you add an operating system!

RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, 1-2 Socket 3-year RedHat Network Subscription [add £1,020.00] :eek: Even Windows Server is 455 quid. Then there's the additional cost of a monitor! I reckon their offer is sailing quite close to breaching the new trading laws (tempt you with the low price, but get something pretty unusable) announced last month.

Add delivery at £50 and a VAT to everything and it's close to £200 , but could still be worth a look for some people

Free delivery - VAT takes it to a total of £116.33. Pretty cheap! :)

Rob.

I reckon their offer is sailing quite close to breaching the new trading laws (tempt you with the low price, but get something pretty unusable) announced last month.

:confused: It's not unusable, you just need to source your own operating system - you're not buying a complete system, you're buying hardware, onto which you can then install your own OS...given the range of free distributions out there I wouldn't see that as a major obstacle.

Plus it's a server, you don't need a monitor for a server, hence why they haven't bundled one and put the price up accordingly...

Rob.

Free delivery - VAT takes it to a total of £116.33. Pretty cheap! :)

Rob.

Oooh , hadn't noticed free delivery.

That's pretty handy

Hmm...i see a new linux test box for me coming up ! :D

Aye that's a good buy all you realy need to do is up the RAM a bit, but that would be ideal as a print server of similar.

Throw ubuntu on it and it's cheap as.

I don't see any RoSH details on it so wonder if it's a clear out of older stock.

Looks a great deal that - could make use of one of those. Think a purchase might be on the cards.

Thanks for the link :thumbup:

Steve

This goes way beyond my knowledge of all things digitalso don't tkae the pi55 if I am wrong. Could I get one of these bung xp on it, leave it in the corner as a simple file server.Or am I barking up the wrong tree.

Does it come with HDD's ????

This goes way beyond my knowledge of all things digitalso don't tkae the pi55 if I am wrong. Could I get one of these bung xp on it, leave it in the corner as a simple file server.Or am I barking up the wrong tree.

Does it come with HDD's ????

yes and yes, it comes with 2 80gb sata drives.

Could I get one of these bung xp on it, leave it in the corner as a simple file server.

You could, though there would be the considerations of licensing XP (ahem) and I'm not sure how great XP is as a dedicated file server...essentially it would just be like sharing files between two XP machines though, so if that's all you had in mind it'd be fine.

Does it come with HDD's ????

2 x 80Gb.

Rob.

Doh .........I just foundthe customize button .....I now see the specs:O

hhhmmmmm I may require something like this soon.

Thanks for the info :thumbup:

This is an absolute bargain... to say you get a dual core cpu with it.. £116!

If i had the cash for it now i'd get one!

Phil

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i have one on order and it will prob get sbs 2008 for a play then use it for bunty.....

i have one on order and it will prob get sbs 2008 for a play then use it for bunty.....

Ordered one too, due an extra gig or two of RAM and then Solaris 10...cheers for the heads up... ;)

Rob.

This is an absolute bargain... to say you get a dual core cpu with it.. £116!

If i had the cash for it now i'd get one!

Phil

don't confuse a dual core pentium with a core2duo, worlds apart.

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don't confuse a dual core pentium with a core2duo, worlds apart.

agree the dual core pentium is much cheaper and overclocks a lot easier!

:rofl:

I've no complaints with mine - running along nicely :thumbup:

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mine too

just waiting on some more memory

Mine arrived today, time to stick the 4gb of memory in and it's time to play :D

Just need to pick an OS.

Any easy to use linux out there, for a technical numpty who wants it to just work with no hassles?

want my 1/2gb that I ain't going to use?

Mine arrived today, time to stick the 4gb of memory in and it's time to play :D

Just need to pick an OS.

Any easy to use linux out there, for a technical numpty who wants it to just work with no hassles?

Ubuntu linux. I'd suggest 8.04 LTS

Download Ubuntu | Ubuntu

HTH

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