[geeks] Help with MCSE

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 19:47, alex j avriette wrote:
> >> think that would work? any other suggestions?
> >
> > As long as it's a PII and has at least 256MB RAM it'll be fine.
> 
> Hm. Okay, this brings up a couple questions. I was thinking emachine, 
> which is a celeron ghz give or take. Problem is, they go for $300. The 
> pII machines ebay all seem to go for in the neighborhood of $200. This 
> seems ridiculous. Any ideas how I can put together a small lan of filthy 
> windows machines on the cheap? I mean ideally, it would seem to me that 
> for $500 give or take, I could pull together 3 or 4 windows clients and 
> maybe a faster p3 or celeron class machine to be her primary machine.
> 
> Virtual PC was suggested (I've got a bunch of macs), but I have had very 
> poor results with it in the past.

For $500 you could just get one decent PC, and load it up with ram, then
use VMware to run many other machines on it.  With 512MB of ram, running
3 Windos installs shouldn't be much trouble, and with 1GB, there's
nothing to worry about.  Disk speed will suck, but it sucks on PCs no
matter what.  
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.