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More info?)
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:26:03 -0500, "Joe Cilinceon" <jfc@direcway.com>
wrote:
>You got me to go take a look and see exactly which we used and it turns out
>to be the SX260 which has a different look than the SX280. The case on the
>SX260 isn't much larger than the average laptop machine.
>
>me@privacy.net wrote:
>>> me@privacy.net wrote:
>>>> Curious if anyone owns the Optiplex S280 with special
>>>> stand that lets cpu set right behind monitor?
>>>>
>>>> Wondering how you like the machine and the
>>>> stand/monitor config?
>>>
>>> I didn't own one, but used one where I worked for about a year. It
>>> had a lot to do with me going Dell this time for my office and home
>>> computers. We didn't have the stand you mentioned but it still had
>>> the smallest footprint I ever seen on a pc. It was a pretty decent
>>> machine for what we needed, simple wordprocessing, intranet
>>> connection for our main applications (storage facility software).
>>
>> So you used the exact same SX280 machine at work right?
The sx280 are very nice little machines. We have sx260's and 270's and
they tend to have issues with overheating which after a lot use has
caused a lot of capacitors to swell and burst. So far we have not seen
this with the 280's but they have much better cooling in them as well.