[lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?

[Nate Duehr]

I had a monitor that did that once and stopped working.  Lovely smell.
It was so old I didn't care...

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:24:35AM -0600, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> I'd have to say that my experiences with Dell's monitors weren't that 
> great either.  While they cheerfully replaced the first one, the second 
> one died in a similar manner after the warranty expired.  It had a nice 
> picture quality but the way it acted, I was kind of scared that it would 
> catch the house on fire sometimes.  You could hear loud snapping sparks 
> from a capacitor being discharged and see that blueish arc light coming 
> from the ventilation slots.  (I have played with HV quite a bit so I 
> know what I heard and saw).
> 
> Chip
> 
> rotering at animalcules.com wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:44:59AM -0600, Rob Nagler wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> I also have had good luck from Dell's refurb store.  The PCs
> >> you get are really "just like new", usually with new mice and
> >> kbds.  I haven't bought monitors from them.
> > 
> > 
> > I have never purchased anything from Dell's refurb store, but I have
> > gotten the monitor on one of my home systems replaced under warranty
> > several times.  Each refurb monitor they sent (3 in all) was broken in
> > some way.
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