Re: [PLUG] Anybody ever buy one of those Walmart PCs?

Erin Mulder <meara@alumni.princeton.edu> · 2004年3月05日 21:11:04 -0500

I don't have any experience with the ones you mention, but a few months 
ago I bought 3 of the el cheapo Dell servers for around 375ドル/each and 
they're great. Very quiet and dependable with a good warranty.
Looks like they still start at 274ドル:
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/pedge_400sc?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd 
I opted to spend the extra 100ドル each to get the P4 2.8Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 
instead of the Celeron 2.0Ghz, 400MHz FSB.
(Just don't ever buy extra RAM from Dell. Their prices are ridiculous!)
Cheers,
Erin
Mike Leone wrote:

I've decided I'm sick and tired of fighting with this failing hardware for
my little mail server. And then I remembered those dirt cheap, online-only
PCs that Walmart sells. They have models available with SuSE, LindowsOS or
no OS. And they start at 160ドル.
Now, they are Nortel brand (who?), and only have 1 or 2 free PCI slots, and
usually only 128M RAM (at the lowest price - they have other models with more)
Anybody ever buy one? Or know someone who has? I'd probably buy a no OS
model, and install Debian. Or just GHOST (or whatever the Linux equivalent
would be) my current drive. Anybody know if they work with Debian (Libranet,
in particular) ?
For 300,ドル I could get an AMD Duron 1.6GHz, 256M RAM, 40G harddrive (only 1
PCI slot, unfortunately). Which, for my home server, should suffice I think,
since I had been using a P3-500. This would actually be an improvement. :-)
Thoughts/comments/alternatives?

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