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To: Larry S. who wrote (35522)	8/6/2003 11:49:09 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Larry, [edited link] maybe here www1.dealtime.com^6008--64961^3142-65589^3284 sorted by price Gottfried

To: Larry S. who wrote (35522)	8/7/2003 12:07:24 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Larry, Its either on Si here or iHub, but there is a thread where folks build their own pc. While you may not want to, they most likely know the best places to get individual parts that may include a box with those items you only want included so that you need not build anything except what you already have to add on. I'am not sure what this web site is used for. parts.emachines.com Its from the home page: emachines.com I planned on buying for $500 an eMachine from Wal-Mart, that includes a monitor, I have second thoughts now as I express them in the following post. investorshub.com Posted by: gotmilk In reply to: gottfried Date: 8/2/2003 Can a seed of dissatisfaction grow... ... i almost caused Susie lots of grief, but lucky for me she did NOT take my advice... Doug

To: Larry S. who wrote (35522)	8/7/2003 7:01:05 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 110652

Low Cost PCs... Larry, The following is a learning area for me to uncover the different operating systems beside Windows. Not to confuse myself too much, but i believe that us talking about personal computers, the hardware for 99.99% of us is either Steve Job's Apple, or the IBM/Intel chip set, mother board or whatever one wants to call the architecture of the electronics that actually carry out the instructions of the software. The URL below is into Wal-Mart.com and i believe these items are not available in stores, buy only through their web site that will have them shipped to your location. It was a few months ago that i noticed these and i remember that i was able to go to the manufacture's web site directly and bypass Wal-Mart completely, but it seemed it cost more that way. But i now remember they sold their hardware without any OS loaded for a reduced price. Anyway, i plan on buying the complete pc at Wal-Mart (monitor included) like the eMachine for $499 that has Windows XP loaded, and then i'll save everything to CDs with backups of the backups :o) and reformat the hard drive and reload everything, and once everything works as initially out of the box i will make that single hard drive into two seperate boot'able drives like i have on my current pc and load Windows XP on the default boot one and Lindows onto the second. Actually i'll make a very small third partition that boot'able and load that $99 Coherent Unix i now have on my second boot'able hard drive... but then i might as well go NUTsssssssss and make a fourth one and load Windows 3.1 of my current pc. walmart.com Lycoris Desktop/LX PCs LindowsOS PCs SuSE Linux PCs doug

To: Larry S. who wrote (35522)	8/9/2003 1:16:40 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Larry, . If i remember correctly reading todays post here, you completed your task very good in buying... . ... want a cheap computer for second puter. Celeron 1500+ or good AMD, 20 gig HD, 256 Sdram or 128 DDRam, no monitor or keyboard or mouse. internet connection, cd rom ... like to pay less that $200 . Gottfried replied to my mention of a magazine article, that rated eMachines very low, in that his old one worked well. While i did find the url to that article, which rated lots of areas, i did remember reading a few months ago on ZDNet that they rated eMachines as a good buy, especially at the cheapo end. . That article rated Dell A+ and ABS A, and a quick glance at the Dell web site showed the cheapest at about $800, and the ABS web site at about a $700 range. No sure now if it included a monitor. . For myself i'am quite sure a Wal-Mart $499 eMachine w/ monitor and a read & write CD and 128 memory will be fine for my web surfing. . The Wal-Mart 1 or 2 week return policy will allow me enough time to run the machine hard to see if its a lemon or has a weak part. . On abspc.com is the pc magazine article, pcmag.com . also, on the above ABS pc web site i found, . Barebone Systems Intel Barebones AMD Barebones abspc.com AMD Barebones Barebones 8110 Base Price:$198 Configure & Buy Maxtop CSX-8870K Mid-Tower Case 350Watts Beige/Silver with USB Port Biostar M7VIG Pro Motherboard USB 2.0 AMD Athlon XP 1700+/266 FSB 256K Crucial Micron 256MB PC 2100 DDR266 RAM doug