[geeks] Ultra 20 thoughts

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:18:59PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Ha... low-end PCs are around $350.  

$265 for the Dell I just bought, a PowerEdge SC420 "server".

Celeron D 325J (2.53Ghz), 512M DDR2-400 ECC RAM, 160G Maxtor SATA HD,
CD-ROM, Broadcom gigabit Ethernet, onboard Intel video, Intel motherboard
chipset.  Has one PCI-E 8x, one PCI-E 1x, and three 32-bit PCI slots,
four USB2 ports, PS2, serial, and parallel.

I suspect the cheap price in this case results from Dell's volume 
buying power, as this is much better built than say, Packard Bell or 
eMachines systems I've seen.  It's also *heavy*.

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas