[ale] PowerSpec (microcenter) pcs?

[Matt Smith]

Help me out.  I've been to monarchcompter's website, and can't seem to
configure a complete No-os PC with minimal config for less than $500


--Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:runman at speedfactory.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 11:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] PowerSpec (microcenter) pcs?


There you go.  The perfect solution.  Monarch Computers
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/ are also pretty good for hardware.  The
bargain basement (new) system nowadays is a 2GHz processor on a board with a
total cost of $150 which is big enough for anything.

Win4Lin is a great solution.  I used it for several months and ran both
Outlook and MS Office on it as well as Evolution and Star Office on the
Linux side as a comparison.  Windows on Win4Lin opened up amazingly fast and
was only a window/app.  Completely stable and usable.  You already have the
Windows 98 license, so no cost there, Win4Lin is about $60 and they had
great support and upgrades when I used them.

For Win virii I would install Norton or some such on the Windows partition
on Win4Lin - treat it just like a single machine.  If the Windows system
comes down, you just restart it in a different window.

Good Luck,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Wells
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:48 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Cc: aaron at pd.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] PowerSpec (microcenter) pcs?
>
>
> Yup...I'd love to see him start using linux.  but, problem is, his
> company's software requires linux.  I'm still considering dropping windows
> on top of win4lin....so easy to recover from a Win virus that way.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> aaron said:
> > There is seriously no reason for John not to help his dad to a Linux /
> > OO  system for desktop, home office and internet... unless he has some
> > specialty  application to support. With the added efficiencies he could
> > consider picking  up a used 300/400mhz system for $150-200 and get out
> > cheap.
>
>
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