On Nov 20, 2007 1:01 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, November 20, 2007 12:37 pm, Gus Wirth wrote:
> > Lan Barnes wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> Google tells me that I might land MB and CPU for ~$100. That I can swing
> >> (I'll put the cats on ebay).
> >
> > You can get a brand new motherboard and CPU for less than that. Looking
> > in ComputorEdge shows several deals at about $85 for an AMD Sempron and
> > motherboard.
>
> Oh no no no no ... we've played that game. I go get one and it doesn't
> work some way and you say "why did you buy _that_ one?!" I'm tired of
> that. And the "you just get this memory and that new HD and the other CPU"
> trick, and pretty soon I'm limping home down $250 and and Alex is getting
> a McDonald's Fun Meal toy for Christmas and Janet is packing to leave me.
>
> If you (or someone else) can't name an inexpensive MB that I can transfer
> memory and pvr-150s to that will work better out of the box, then to hell
> with it, I'm standing pat.
Isn't that something like "I want to buy a new car and transfer the
tires from my old one"? Without even knowing what size they are.
Does anyone know the specifications of the memory you would like to
transfer? I don't.
carl
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