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“You can download VMWare server for Linux (from VMWare) free of charge and run one of your old operating systems on it as well.”

You wanna try running VMWare on a machine with these specs? How about buying a real machine from the beginning. Its sad knowing that poor people who are ignorant about PCs will spend money on this kinda garbage. Walmart is taking advantage of folks with this.

You wanna try running VMWare on a machine with these specs?

I'm running VMWare with 2 Gigs and would like to make it 4 Gigs of memory. I did try VMWare on a WinXP computer with 512M. I cloned a customers Win98 to run as a virtual machine on that computer and it runs OK. The VIA processor worries me a bit - I used some a few years ago and they were pretty slow.

My repair and data recovery business has been doing much better with all of the cheap computers. I actually saw an eMachine yesterday with WinXP and only 128M of memory. The sticker on the front actually said '128M DDR for optimized performance.' Horrors! It was unbearably slow until memory was added. You're right - cheap components in a colorful box - they really do take advantage of people. High quality components in a cheap box is really the way to go.