Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!peng From: peng@cs.umn.edu (Lim Ee Peng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Buying a 386 machine Summary: Seeking Opinion Message-ID: <1991Jan15.171833.20599@cs.umn.edu> Date: 15 Jan 91 17:18:33 GMT Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. Lines: 20 I intend to get a 386 of the following configuration 33MHz, 4 MB RAM, Multi-IO, VGA card I am the following questions in mind and may be some of you can give me valuable advice on them. 1. Is the above machine too powerful for ordinally business application? 2. What is the reasonable price I should be looking for? 3. What is best kind of hard disk that will match the speed of the CPU? Thanks Peng (peng@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu) .