Jens Frank wrote:
That's non-ECC ram though and no cdrom.
What do you need a CDROM for if you've got a NIC?
I think he just meant that the price comparison wasn't 100% fair, which is correct.
I'm planning to not buy CDROMs for the bulk of machines, because they cost $68 each (varies with vendor, of course), and they aren't much use in our kind of application. It's convenient for reinstalling the os from scratch, but if I'm doing that, I've already had a hardware failure or something, presumably.
On the other hand, a floppy is still useful as a quick way to boot an otherwise totally dead machine. And they cost very little.
--Jimbo