[ale] PowerSpec (microcenter) pcs?

[Greg]

ok, here it goes:
	case: CompUSA or otherwise  $40.00
	mobo: Anywhere              $75.00
      CPU:  Anywhere		    $75.00
      Power supply:Somwhere       $40.00
      floppy: Somwhere		    $20.00
      CDROM: Somwhere		    $40.00
      Video Card	Somwhere	    $60.00
      Hard Drive:	Somwhere	   $100.00
	Fans (2 x $10.00)		    $20.00
			GRAND TOTAL:	$470.00

Needless to say, everything is exaggerated.  You *CAN* find stuff for less.
You can ebay and get stuff cheap.  Dell Servers are going for $270 as
someone on this list has found out.  As was quoted earlier go cheap.  My
dataserver is a 600MHZ Celeron running Win 2K server and Oracle and
Suse/mysql/postgresql. No problem (though I am getting rid of the Win2k and
going to Oracle on Linux).  Hardware is like software - the latest and
greatest is the most expensive.  Look at Walmart's pc's running Lindows -
buy one of them and put Win98 on it.  If you call Monarch and speak to a
salesman, they will help you coordinate it - but tell them you are looking
for bargain basement.  I get NICs in a bargain bin for $2.00 since my dsl is
only 1/10 - 1/7 of an old nic.  I shop at costco and best buy for HD (best
buy once had 100 GB HD for $60.00).  It will take more work but is the way
to go if you have more time than money.  Monarch also will assemble for
$25.00 and give you advice for free if you bought some stuff from them (I
like their cases, mobo's and CPU's - all bargain basement).

Good Luck

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Matt
> Smith
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: RE: [ale] PowerSpec (microcenter) pcs?
>
>
> 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]
> 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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