Michael said:
$10,000.00 computer? Are you interested in a used bridge, cheap?
I would rather you sell me one of these for less than $10,000:
Dell PowerEdge 6800 server
Quad 3.4GHz/800Mhz/16mb Cache, Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7140M CPUs
8GB, DDR2, 400MHz (8X1GB) Single Ranked DIMMs, (Mirrored, 4GB usable)
Dual Power Supplies
24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive
Split HD Backplane
2X5 Hot-Pluggable Split HDD Backplane
Dula PERC4DC-PCI Express controllers, 128MB Cache ea.
Two 146GB 15KRPM SCSI U320 HotPlug Hard Drives (RAID-1[mirrored])
Three 300GB 10KRPM SCSI U320 HotPlug Hard Drives (RAID-5)
Two Intel Pro 1000MT Dual Port Gigabit Network Adapters
List price: $16,063
Price after Volume discount: $11,244
(I didn't add the cost of Redhat, VMWare, multiple Windows
licenses, seperate NAS for backup, UPS, monitor, etc...)
BTW, I don't actually play Solitaire on a computer; until
the above system gets installed it will be running a chess
program -- and beating me badly every game.