Poor, Edmund W wrote:

At that price, they should send a technician to install it, test it, and hang around for a few days to make sure it "burns in" all right.

It would be nice if they would. Their prices seem very competitive so they may make a substantial loss if they offered that.

http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

For example, the extra cost of adding a 1Gb DDR400 DIMM is $380- less than what you would pay Crucial or most other 3rd party vendors. System integrators

Comapring Dell and Silicon Mechanics P4 servers, the closest is the Dell Poweredge 650. Dell has slower memory and does not come with SATA.

The equivalent config with dell costs US$2475 -$100 mail in rebate and free palm Zire. Say worth $50. Nett Price US$2325 The closest silicon mechanics machine to the Dell is a 1150A, equally configured will cost US$1593. 32% cheaper.

Silicon mechanics machine as ordered still costs 25% less than the inferior DELL at US$1773.