Re: [PLUG] Anybody ever buy one of those Walmart PCs?

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

Mike Leone wrote:

I picked up a Microcenter bare-bones box last October.

$219.00
2.G Celeron
128M DDR RAM (Only two slots, though)
4 USB ports
1 old fashioned parallel, 1 old fashioned serial port
Ethernet, video on the motherboard


Doesn't come with a drive. Put a 40G Seagate in ($60.00). Put another 
128M DDR ($35.00). I had a "remanufactured" CD writer just lying around 
from a couple of years ago. Put that in. Installed Red Hat 9.

Everything works. I burn CDs, run MySQL, etc. Talks to a Win9x box via 
samba, no problems. Oh, did I mention I'm a newbie, don't really know 
what I'm doing? Box has been up 72 days. The last time it went down the 
power bounced and I don't have a UPS.

I give it an OK. :-)




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