Shortly after I mailed this message yesterday, I found that two local
stores are selling ~800 MHz Pentium III machines with "everything" for
$800 to $900. One machine is an HP, another is an A-Open. They include
gargantuan hard drives, 128 M, kb, mouse, modem (surely a winmodem) sound,
cd-rw, and even some kind of 17" monitor. And this is WITHOUT the so-called
Microsoft "rebate" where you have to sign up with their ISP for 3 years.
This is, apparently, without any catch. I suppose these are discontinued
models, and there are probably sales like this going on all over the
country right now. One warning: a lot of "popular" work-station type
computers are gutless wonders. Make sure it has enough PCI slots on
the mobo for whatever you want to do.
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:16:28 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [expert] Building a new Lm system
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>You have to do some homework. I just got thru looking at various
>sales spots, and I figure that I can put together an Athlon 800MHz
>machine with an Abit KA7-100 mobo, 128 MB PC133, and 15 GB IBM
>ATA-100 hd, using presently available (that I have) monitor, sound
>card, video card, mouse, CDR, and KB, for about $800. Now I'm trying to
>work up the courage to do it! (I haven't looked at preassembled
>systems, because they tend to bundle in more than I need. I'd rather
>use my faithful IBM KB, and my trackball, most bundles include
>a useless-to-Linux winmodem, and I've got a better monitor than any
>bundle I've ever seen from anybody.)
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>At 10:25 PM 07/25/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi all,
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>>I am planning to build a new system.
>>What will be the approx price to assemble a 700+ Mhz system.
>>I have a choice of buying a complete system from one of the Linux harware
>>guys or building my own. Which will be cheaper.
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>>If building my own can i rely on online purchase of components, will it be
>>cheaper in any way.
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>>I am looking forward to all your feedback.
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>>Cheers
>>Sridhar
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