[ale] (OT) Wal-Mart $199

[cfowler]

For $99 more you can get the "top of the line" G1 from Ginstar.  Last I
looked it was 2.0GHZ 60GB.  And more.


On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:16, Zyman, Andy wrote:
> 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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