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RE: [PLUG] cheap boxes? really?
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I build boxes for my friends and family for under $450 w/o a monitor.
Get an SiS all-in-one motherboard (LAN, Modem, Sound & Video) $80
They make them for both Intel and AMD
Celeron 733/800 or a Duron 800 for around $70
128 megs SDRAM $90
5400 RPM 10-30 gig hard drive $100
Generic CD-ROM $30
Floppy $10
Case $40 (I use the enlite mid-tower w/300W PS)
You can get all this at one of the local PC shows.
Bob Razler
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Abrahamson [mailto:jeff@purple.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:01 AM
To: PLUG
Subject: [PLUG] cheap boxes? really?
The news has been all aflurry the last year of various $200 - $300 intel
boxes running linux. Does anyone know how to buy such a thing? I'm looking
to buy a new box, doesn't have to be 1 GHz or anything, just trying to do it
cheaply if I can. I figure I'll still have to spend a couple hundred adding
enough RAM for my tastes, but I'm wondering if I can really put together a
machine for $500 or so once I'm done. Without spending days researching all
the details and going all over creation to do it.
As an aside, I'd love to be able to recommend a source of cheap machines to
friends.
Anyone know where these supposedly cheap linux boxes can be had?
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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