[lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?

[Chip Atkinson]

Mine was not the trinitron.  It was the nicer of the two styles 
available though.  It was purchased in the days when a P-133 was a 
pretty decent box.

Jeff Walker wrote:

> good lord.
> 
> I have a dell monitor (one of the trinitron ones) and it started having
> problems with the color convergence.  I called support and the sent me a
> refurb as a replacement.  It had a very bad problem with focus, worse than
> the one I was replacing.  I called back and they sent me a brand-new one.
> Very nice.
> 
> I have heard conflicting things about dell monitors.  I wonder if these
> people that have had trouble got the trinitron (sony tube) or the cheaper
> ones?
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
>> Behalf Of Chip Atkinson
>> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:25 AM
>> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>> Subject: Re: [lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?
>> 
>> 
>> 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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