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[AuckLUG] LUG activity?

Chilling_Silence Chilling_Silence at orcon.net.nz
Tue Dec 26 09:20:16 NZDT 2006


That'd be www.pricespy.co.nz ;-)

Just be careful with SuperCheapPC, there are a lot of mixed results with
people shopping there:
http://pressf1.co.nz/showthread.php?t=75147

Ive had a dealers account with Qmb for about 4 years now, never had a
problem :)

As for LUG Activity, the AuckLUG should be back again in either the first
monday of Jan or the first monday of Feb...

> I would go to www.pricespy.com, and they usually send you to
> www.supercheappc.biz. They're the cheapest, but I've had no problems with
> anything I've bought...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aucklug-bounces at linux.net.nz [mailto:aucklug-bounces at linux.net.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of Mark Foster
> Sent: Monday, 25 December 2006 22:26
> To: Auckland Linux User Group mailing list
> Subject: Re: [AuckLUG] LUG activity?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.  Merry Christmas!! :)
>>
>> I'm new in the area.  I just arrived in Auckland on December 16th and
>> I'm planning on staying here permanently.  I'm American and I'm hoping
>> to be active in the Linux Users' Group and Open Source Software
>> community
> here.
>>
>> I've checked out the pages at linux.net.nz, but I discovered that
>> there hasn't been any activity since early November :(  Has this just
>> been a break in the action during the holiday season?
>>
>> I brought most of my computer in my suitcase.  Now I'm looking for a
>> good place to buy the things I need to turn it back into a complete
>> computer.  I need a decent case, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse.
>> Can anyone suggest a good place to shop?
>>
>
> Hey Vince, welcome to NZ.
> Yep - most of the LUGs go fairly dormant after end of November and things
> wake up again after the New Year, typically mid-Jan-ish.
>
> In terms of suitable hardware, part of it may be influenced by where in
> Auckland you're based. Theres a number of likely suppliers, esp as you're
> building up a system based on components instead of buying an entire
> system.
>
> OEM Computers in Manukau are pretty good (or were) if you're in the South.
> PB Technologies are in Penrose (further north, about halfway to the
> Central
> City) and always treated me pretty well.
>
> I'm sure others on here will have suggestions.
>
> Again welcome to NZ...
>
> Regards
> Mark.
>
>
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