Yeah I went to snag one of them on Sunday (I figured for $9.00 how bad 
can it be?) but they were all out.

Carl P.

David P. Schwartz wrote:

>I picked up a couple 500 VA UPSs at Fry's the other day for $29 that have a $20 rebate -- hence, $9 after the rebate.  Nothing fancy
>about them at all, but they'll probably work fine for small systems.
>
>-David Schwartz
>
>"David A. Sinck" wrote:
>
>>I was out shopping for a UPS for my new box (finally!) and did some
>>quick comparisons that I thought I'd share with yall just to be nice.
>>This isn't an exhaustive list of UPSes avail, just the operative ones
>>in my decision making process.  :-)
>>
>>Costco: 725 VA/ 450 watts  3 battery outlets/3 surge only $169
>>        500 VA/ 280 w 3/3 $69
>>
>>CompUSA: 900 VA/500w 3/3 $149
>>
>>Bestbuy: oops, didn't write it down since it was worse off than
>>CompUSA.  :-)
>>
>>So given that I wanted a bit of oomph, I bought the device from
>>CompUSA (please, no beatings).  It's got a serial port and comes
>>*with* the appropriate cable.
>>
>>So, I was as happy as a clam: a UPS with cool features ("Hey, Idiot,
>>too much load" and the standard 'wiring fault', 'battery on', "I'm
>>going to beep more than a mis-paste in vi", etc).
>>
>>Then I saw the bundled software:
>>
>>                                 APC
>>
>>Yes, that's right, APC, the makers of finer name brand devices that
>>are Linux compatible and have drivers for same.
>>
>>Now, I haven't checked the viability of signals and such (the battery
>>is on it's initial charge cycle) but it *seems* promising.  YPMV.
>>(power)
>>
>>That made it officially cooler than the $6 10/100 NIC card from
>>BestBuy.
>>
>>Miscellaneous: when I was buying my original box lo these many years,
>>AZ had the next-to-last rank in power quality...only Alaska was worse
>>off (go figure).  In my time here, that's been pretty much validated.
>>OTOH, I imagine we're #47 now, letting California jump to #50 from
>>wherever.  :-)
>>
>>And in a plea to the monitored everywhere, where would be a good place
>>to eyeball billions of monitors that lets you pick frequency and such
>>("show me 19" @ 16x12 or better or I walk").  Or nominations for 19"
>>monitors that can do same?
>>
>>I'm severely tempted by http://www.iiyama.com/product2/A902MT.HTM in
>>everything but the price.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>David
>>
>
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