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to: Frank Haber
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2006-04-08 11:47:20
subject: Re: Two Juicy New Apples

From: Mike '/m' 


4-port unit is $219, 2-port is $157, and cables are $23 each from
provantage.com.  You have to search on the part number (get it from the
avocent site) to find the cables on provantage.


Provantage is a good place, I've been using them since before online shopping....

The hi-rez DVI stuff ain't cheap....

 /m


On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:58:37 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>Gack.  $500 with four cables.  I'm going to need one of these things soon.
>
>On the low end, I finally decided to put Win2k on a couple of PII Sony VAIO
>laptops.  They'll only take 192MB, unless I fiddle something.  I was surprised
>at how usable the machines are, one app at a time (they're basically just
>props, displaying static screens).  And they actually suspend now.  (They just
>crashed under 98OE, and had that incurable shutdown disease.)
>
>And I finally can use Power DVD 5, but only if I first set 800x600xmillions.
>Otherwise the NeoMagic256 stutters (probably only a 4MB card). So there you
>have the lower limits.

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