[ale] (OT) Wal-Mart $199

[Zyman, Andy]

Jeff, Denny,
thank you for reply.
So seems like not a bad idea. 
I'll have to look closely on that stuff than.
AZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denny Chambers [mailto:bugfix4u2 at bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:08 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] (OT) Wal-Mart $199
> 
> 
> Here is some performance numbers on the VIA processors. They 
> appear to 
> be comparable with Celeron processors.
> 
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/pb.jsp
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> >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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