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$199.00 PC
« on: March 10, 2004, 05:41:40 PM »
Not the fastest PC on the market, comes with Linux.  Might be a good AROS box when AROS is ready.

http://linare.zoovy.com/product/00012345678
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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2004, 06:59:19 PM »
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DFergATL wrote:
Not the fastest PC on the market, comes with Linux.  Might be a good AROS box when AROS is ready.

http://linare.zoovy.com/product/00012345678


Makes you think doesn't it!

two words... Black and Troll  :-)

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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2004, 07:10:55 PM »
Yes it actually does make me think "Black Troll" wonder what they are up to.  We still have about a month to wait to find out, I think.
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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2004, 09:02:59 PM »
Honestly?  I wouldn't give $9.00 for a Duron, let alone the other $190.

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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2004, 09:39:54 PM »
It looks like a fair deal, but doesn't appear to come with some things like a floppy or CD-ROM drive.  I think for a couple of $$$ more you can get a faster AMD XP with some name brand parts, floppy, CD, etc.
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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2004, 09:53:33 PM »
well, if all I had was $199, I would go for something like this....however, I am generally tempted to notch it up just a wee bit.  

the athlon xp is a bit long in the tooth, but, its at the sweeet spot for best performance/dollar.  I got caught up in the 'mobile barton' overclocking craze myself...but I saved a bunch of money and have a fairly fast system...spent less than 500 total on my computer.

 

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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2004, 10:25:03 PM »
My dad got one of those to check out for a customer, came with Linare Linux, which is a modded redhat distro. Came with like a 30 gig HDD... geee can't remember if it had CDROM drive... it uses a small mobo though.... like, the case is huge for the size of the mobo.... mini atx or something, longer than it is wide....
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Re: $199.00 PC
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2004, 10:30:00 PM »
says at their site that it does include a 52x cdrom drive.