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From: i1neal@exnet.iastate.edu (Neal Rauhauser -- )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Tower vs. Desktop
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.150521.23318@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 15:05:21 GMT
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In article <1162@gistdev.gist.com> flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:
>chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) writes:
>
>>Given the choice, which would you prefer and why ???
>
*choice of tower or desktop, floor or desk*


      Desktops are nice if you work on internals a lot - I wish I had
a suntac 286 in a desktop case just for diagnostic work. right now I
have a minitower on the desktop next to the printer - I have two
desks side by side so I have enough room. The little tower would work
on one desk with monitor if the desk was wide/deep enough for you to
be comfortable.

     Floor mounted towers are a deadly peril for hard disks. If I
had a dollar for every hard drive I've un-fucked that came out of 
a tower on the floor, I'd take you out for a nice dinner. The thing
with being on the floor is that the machine gets kicked or rammed
with a chair leg at least once a day - not good for data integrity.



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