>>> That being said, people buy what the need. There are those people who need support, and I recommend they pay for it. I don't so I won't.
Alas, this is true. It's such a waste of money, though. Also, while one waits for a techie to come to your office, everything IT remains dead.
>>> 680 Insperion duel core also with 4 gigs of ram and the same coverage to. And this one only went for about $1200
I just looked at some of the Dell laptops, and WOW!!! Some come with just about the same configuration as my son's desktop for about the same price. Amazing!!! And they come with 17" screens, too.
>>> Paul I am extremely wary of "terabyte" drive configurations in anything except RAID5. Paul I am extremely wary of "terabyte" drive configurations in anything except RAID5. The reason is very large drives are difficult to back up. If they are not backed up and they fail...that's a lot of stuff to lose.
I never thought of those issues.
You can place several partitions covering several computers on your LAN. Overall, though, I don't see me using them anytime soon. I'd rather still ghost drives on the same computer, locally.