[ale] (OT) Wal-Mart $199

[Denny Chambers]

Here is some performance numbers on the VIA processors. They appear to 
be comparable with Celeron processors.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/pb.jsp

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>Andy, I think that would be a great machine to use for that purpose.  I
>would want to beef it up with more drives such that I could use RAID,
>but, if $200 is all you want to spend, then, yeah, no worries!
>
>- Jeff
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>On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:49, Zyman, Andy wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>it is around for a while. But only now i decided to take a look on this as a
>>:
>>1. Possible Linux + Oracle 9i server. Don't need much - just want to run
>>some research tasks on weekends ( you know how it is %) ).
>>2. Burn CDs
>>3. Play some games occasionally.
>>
>>I would assume that i would need about 512 mb and large drive (40G ),
>>wireless card and cdrw.
>>
>>Now question:
>>1. Is it forth to get for ~$200 and upgrade to what i want? Or it will be
>>still too slow and not worth the money I'll put into it? 
>>P.S. Yeah, i already have some old 14'' monitor... so probably i won't play
>>games %))
>>
>>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.h
>>tml
>>
>>Thank You
>> Andy
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