[PLUG] Mall-Wart hardware

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:

> I would be wary mainly of the power supply. An inferior power supply will 
> cause all sorts of mysterious problems, and possibly die young, frying other 
> components as it fails. Cheap RAM can be a real headache too; and do they use 
> shared system memory for video? I haven't looked at the specs on these, I'd 
> take a pretty hard look to make sure I wasn't purchasing a peck of troubles. 

  Excellent thoughts, Carla, and these concerns were buried deep in what
remains of my mind. After all, corners have to be cut off deeply to sell
hardware cheaply. Thanks for bringing this to my consciousness.

Rich