[wplug] What do you think? a $99 computer
Michael H. Semcheski
mhsemcheski at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 08:12:43 EDT 2007
> i am looking to build my own desktop and have then ship to to me and
> get a good warranty
> on all the components, my price range will be $400 max. Anyone know of
> any good sites where i can select the pieces i want and see the final
> price (within my budget). Don't need a monitor, already got 19" CRT.
> especially interested in linux friendly system, don't need MS Windows
> either. i heard core duo systems generate too much heat so just single
> core for me i guess.
A couple of notes:
Dell probably sells a machine that fits your bill. Personally, I'm
not that aware of what they sell for $400, but there is something, and
I'll bet you can get it sans windows. The whole Ubuntu + Dell thing
is nothing new. They've been selling Redhat and SuSE for years.
As far as putting it together yourself, its not a terrible way to do
it, almost always the cheapest way, but it is tough when something
breaks (especially if thats your only computer.) And something will
break.
I think the Zonobobobo computer looks pretty neat. So long as you
don't use more than 10GB of space. I have less than that on my
laptop, but I keep all my music and videos on another computer. I'd
like to see more stuff use s3.
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