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From: doukas@hart.Princeton.EDU (Dimitris Doukas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Video Card and Hard Drive Question
Message-ID: <6286@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:03:12 GMT
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I have the following question for you:
	I am going to buy a 486-25MHz computer. Gateway2000 offers a good deal.
	The question refers to the video card and the hard drive. GW offers
	the "diamond SpeedStar" with 1Mb which they say outperforms every other
	brand name card. I had in mind to by the Orchid Prodesigner II 1024 x 768.
	Could anyone tell me if he/she had an experience with the diamond SpeedStar
	and in particular point out any well known incompatibilities (I am interested to
	run UNIX)? They also offer a WD 200MB 15ms IDE hard drive, but i am for a
	Conner 3204 200Mb IDE. Do you have any comments on that?

Thanks a lot,
--Dimitris
PS: They charge 150$ for the Diamond and 700$ for the WD HD.
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	Dimitris Doukas  (doukas@princeton.edu)
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