At 10:07 PM 4/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
    I'm willing to bet that your shop isn't
populated with $600
 off-the-shelf bundled systems.
   I've seen PC/Windows shops with remarkably high uptime-to-downtime
 ratios.  None of them were running bargain equipment. 
 You gets what you pay for...... I can't count the number of headache
 machines i've worked on for people because they bought the cheapest
 wintel componants :(   where if they'd spent 5 to 10 percent more i
 wouldn't end up working on their machine.....