"Nicholas C. Dalzell" wrote: > SurvPCs CAN RUN XP! The discussion isn't neccesarily OT... Well I'm not anyone to nitpick topics Nicholas, but who, who had the money to buy a home copy of XP would spend the money on that, and not spend it on improving the hardware they have been struggling to make use of?
You can teach a bear to dance too, but it aint elegant. There might be something in the issue of what hardware counts as survpc. For that, I rely on money as the only defining parameter. If it's cheap enough, then it is SURVPC. Right now, the cheapest motherboards out there still stocked by the usual suspects are all ATX PCI. If you look around, you can get one that also has AGP and USB for 30$, and the socket 370 CPUs can be had for 30$ as well, on up to about 600mhz. And then there's 168 pin 128meg dram for 15$. That is 75$ for the mthbd, RAM, and CPU. You can beat that from ebay or some used computer resellers, but if any of it dont work, you havta send back the whole thing cause they prolly dont stock replacement parts. Which is something else to consider, what you might want to upgrade later. If you have an earlier platform, AT, Socket 3, or whatever, Well, as noted on the post about laptop ram, you can get screwed trying to get parts that are no longer in the warehouses of the large vendors. The other thing about XP is the increasing competition from the Nix distros- which also compete with each other, and are making rapid progress with installation scripts that even a newbie can work with. I expect there are several distros that would install on your 1.2 gig HD and leave you twice as much free space, and install in half the time. There are still issues with winmodems and in-SANE scanners, but the hardware manufacturers are adding Nix drivers. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
