$200 (US) PC...

Tue Jul 27 00:23:40 UTC 2010

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.

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William

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