Posted on 12/21/2004 1:46:54 AM PST by angkor
128K? Gee, I haven't see a 128k upgrade in MANY years! Then again, I know you meant M not K.
I bought my Compaq 555 megahertz Celeron in 99 for $900. At purchase, it had 10 gigs, 64 megs of RAM, and a CD ROM. I've upgraded it since then.....and bought 2 other computers and about $2000 worth of hardware and software....They got me!
Linspire is the easiest Linux install I've found. It's not much more difficult than Windows, and it really is a nice looking and easy-enough-to-use OS. As noted by others, there is indeed a learning curve when it comes to installing and configuring other software and peripherals. I run a Linspire virtual machine through Virtual PC.
MM
Been there done that and done it again.I have more desktops ranging fron pentium 2 through 4 than most small buisiness's.Fortunately I didn't pay for them all 3 were "gifts".My first HP a celeron 3 with 64 megs was around $1200 a couple or three years later my Dell Celeron 4 with 4X the processor speed and memory cost almost exactly half as much.All but the two pentium 2s have been upgraded to the max and work really well despite being way obsolete.
Buy an Apple. They are made in Taiwan, not China.
The battle ha$ ju$t begun !
> In short, a toy for high school students
Right. Watch the rebates at Circuit City or CompUSA and you'll get a real machine for as low as $700.
I predict this machine will be an absolute flop and they'll bring out a Windows machine with a decent processor, RAM, screen and disk for about the same price within a year.
Buyer beware. I am less impressed with WalMart all the time.
Ha! Economics makes strange bedfellows.
I did not know that!
Yeah and if it was unsuitable for CAD work it would be unsuitable for 3D modeling and animation. I'll stick to my Sager 5680 =P (everyone is like wth is that?)
High school(pr0n downloader) > university comp(music dowloader) > engineering/CAD > 3D animation (Maya) :o
Made or assembled?
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