Another MicroCenter Box

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Mon Nov 4 15:52:05 CST 2002


One word WalMart.
800 Mhz Celeron,
10 GB HD,
128 MB RAM
52x CDROM
NIC/USB/Sound
8MB brandname video (forgot the name good card not much memory)
Linux preinstalled (Lindows)
$199
no monitor.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Kessler [mailto:kessler2k at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:04 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Another MicroCenter Box
> 
> 
> That is not a 'bad' price. But if you are frugal like
> me, you can find better for cheaper. Bookmark
> pricewatch.com and check it over. If you have some
> parts already, you build 3 x the system for that, or
> less. As for the ram, DEFINITELY cheaper on
> pricewatch. 512mb pc133 was @ $28 today for
> instance...
> 
> Kurt
> 
> --- Seth Dimbert <seth at dimbert.net> wrote:
> > Dimbert Family
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> > 
> > MicroCenter is now selling IBM P300's. The boxes
> > contain:
> >  - Pentium 300mhz processor
> >  - 3.something GB HDD
> >  - NIC/CDROM/USB
> >  - 64 mb RAM
> > 
> > They're selling for $200. I can get another 128 mb
> > of RAM for a song ($40 -
> > $50). So, will 300 mhz be enough to run RHv8?
> > 
> > -SD
> > 
> > 
> > 
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