$200 (US) PC...

[E K]

--- On Mon, 7/26/10, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: $200 (US) PC...
> To: "tlug" <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Received: Monday, July 26, 2010, 8:23 PM
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:06:07PM
> -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> > Thanks to the slashdot.org news website, I ran across
> the following
> > story about building a $200 (U.S.) PC:
> > 
> > http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2366841,00.asp
> > 
> > In building the PC they did not include a keyboard,
> mouse or display
> > in the budget. Interesting to see where else they cut
> costs. The
> > people who did the above make no secret of their
> fondness for MS
> > Windows, but they note that they could not do MS
> Windows and hit their
> > price point target, so, Ubuntu Linux was the OS used.
> Also, to cut
> > costs they didn't include an optical drive and instead
> installed from
> > a USB memory key...
> > 
> > Interesting article on budget PC building...
> 
> You can do that here in Canada, too.
> 
> -- 
> William
> 

I just got an HP G62 with 3G RAM, 320G HDD and AMD P320 CPU for cd$400. With such price on the market, the saving will not be worth the effort ... specially if one finds the preloaded Windows 7 useful.

EK

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