[sclug] On ultra cheap machines

[Liam Flanagan]

I got my Mum one of
these<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zotac-ZBOX-AD02-B-ZBOX-AD02-Mini/dp/B004TS2MHI/ref=sr_1_23?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1336078801&sr=1-23>
about
a year ago, maxed out the ram and stuck in a 60GB SSD. It runs Ubuntu
flawlessly and the vesa mount to the back of her monitor was a nice touch.

I know that particular model is out of stock but there are plenty of
current models out now at similar prices.

That said, it *definitely* doesn't beat free / the cost of a beer.

Liam


On 25 April 2013 18:53, Robin Smith <robinsmith3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an decent dual core pentium that flies on Arch Linux. Yours if you
> collect. Throw in a beer if you want.
>
> Cheers
> Robin.
>
>
> On 25 April 2013 18:04, David Given <dg at cowlark.com> wrote:
>
> > My father's been complaining that his desktop PC is running very slowly,
> > spending a lot of time swapping. After discovering that it's got 768MB
> > RAM and maxes out at 1GB, I think out found out why.
> >
> > What's the current state-of-the-art in cheap and nasty PCs? He's not a
> > gamer, and will use it mainly for some light DTPing and scanning and
> > driving a printer, so it basically needs no performance whatsoever. It
> > needs to run Linux and, um, Windows XP. The case is fine, so it probably
> > just needs a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive.
> >
> > I'm totally out of touch with PC hardware: can you still get
> > motherboards with integrated CPUs? Are they cost-effective? Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > (Mutter mutter. If he wanted an ARM box I'd know just what to get him.
> > But no, he wants a frickin' PC...)
> >
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