MicroCenter Systems

[Kurt Kessler]

Seems like a bit of money, for what it is. A few
months ago, I bought 2 used P75's from Northrop
Grumman that included 'everything' except hard drives
for $60. The monitors were actually quite new Dell
15's. You might try www.pricewatch.com and look
around. I bought my wife a 1ghz Duron bare bones
system for $140 including shipping. Just added a mon,
hd, cd, and vid and she was set. Good deals are out
there. $100/ea just seems a bit much for what they
are, IMHO.

--- mbsmith at dstsystems.com wrote:
> I'm amazed someone can still put together such low
> spec machines. 100MHz?? 
>  1.7GB HD??  They must have come across an old
> stockpile of parts.  I 
> imagine you could add $100 and come up with a
> machine at least 5 times as 
> fast/large.  Your A) scenario would not fly.
> 
> Cheers
> Mark Smith
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Seth Dimbert <s.dimbert at fhmr.com>
> Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> 09/18/2002 11:28 AM
> 
>  
>         To:     kclug at kclug.org
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        MicroCenter Systems
> 
> 
> MicroCenter is selling OS'less systems for $99. The
> package includes a
> monitor and PC, spec'ed at:
> 
>  - Pentium 100mhz
>  - 35mb RAM
>  - 1.7gb HDD
>  - FDD
>  - No CD-ROM
>  - NIC
> 
> Assuming I have a CD-ROM drive, can this system run
> a modern distro of
> Linux? I'm looking for either:
> 
> A) a home/office machine with StarOffice and a GUI,
> or
> B) a command-line-only httpd/ftp server with all the
> bells and whistles
> (php, mySQL, Perl, etc).
> 
> These machines worth $100?
> 
> -SD
> 
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