I had just broken my own budget this year already (and therefore I am not getting me or anyone anything this coming Christmas) ... Too bad ...

After rounds of spec'ing and phone calls with my special DELL contact, I officially accepted the quotations ...

Like I said here, I am going all out this time around as most of my machines had run its 3+ year course and I am getting it all ready for Vista as well as the upcoming Longhorn, or Windows Server 2008, or whatever PLUS the High-Performance Computing (HPC) of Virtualization Technologies (VT), etc.

So, what kind of goodies did I end up with for being much poorer (even though I got a great deal on DELL for the pricing) ? Here it is - all X64 bit Chips (Core 2 Duo and a Dual-Processor Dual Core XEON Pro)

• DELL LATITUDE D620
  CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 2.0 GHZ - Merom Chip
  Integrated 4MB ON-DIE L2 Cache, 667HMZ FSB
  + the works ...

• DELL POWEREDGE SC1430 Server
  CPU: Intel Dual Core XEON Pro 5140 2.33GHZ - Woodcrest Chip X 2 Processors
  4MB L2 cache, 1333MHz FSB
  RAM: 4GB (4 x 1GB) 667MHZ ECC 2R Fully Buffered DIMM (FBD) Memory. Max Support: 16GB FBD
  + the works ...

OK - Now that I have the metal, now its time to look at some nearby (I dont think I can afford the gas to travel that far ...) banks for a quick heist for the greens.