[ale] (OT) Wal-Mart $199

[Jeff Hubbs]

Andy, I think that would be a great machine to use for that purpose.  I
would want to beef it up with more drives such that I could use RAID,
but, if $200 is all you want to spend, then, yeah, no worries!

- Jeff


On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:49, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> Hello,
> it is around for a while. But only now i decided to take a look on this as a
> :
> 1. Possible Linux + Oracle 9i server. Don't need much - just want to run
> some research tasks on weekends ( you know how it is %) ).
> 2. Burn CDs
> 3. Play some games occasionally.
> 
> I would assume that i would need about 512 mb and large drive (40G ),
> wireless card and cdrw.
> 
> Now question:
> 1. Is it forth to get for ~$200 and upgrade to what i want? Or it will be
> still too slow and not worth the money I'll put into it? 
> P.S. Yeah, i already have some old 14'' monitor... so probably i won't play
> games %))
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.h
> tml
> 
> Thank You
>  Andy
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