[lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

Getting OT, but brick-and-mortar stores are useful when you have to have
something *right now*.  You pay a premium, but sometimes it's worth it.  Plus,
where else are you going to get to play with the stuff before you buy?

Other than a laptop, I would never buy a pre-assembled system.  The cheaper
ones are crap, plus they're invariably bundled with software that I will never
use.  The ones without the bundled software are too damn expensive.

Dhruva

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:01:20AM -0600, quoth Ed:
> You are still walking into a store to buy your hadware? How 20th
> century of you!
> 
> The best way to buy hardware (and software) is
> www.computershopper.com. There you can search by category, see the
> competing products in the same class of product, and read
> reviews. Finally, it will give you a long list of on-line vendors, and
> their prices. You pick the lowest price, click the "Buy Now" button,
> and voila, in 5 minutes you are done.
> 
> CompUSA is a really useful store if aliens invade and destroy the web
> and you really need a mousepad. Otherwise, stay out of that place.
>