Until Tuesday, January 21st Bay Area Fry's is hawking the Siemens 1 port Speedstream cable/DSL router for only $5 after a $10 mail in rebate.
SKU: 3493323
Other OK deals:
Free Siemens Speedstream ethernet card after $10 MIR. As I recall, this NIC has a WOL cable.
Seagate 80 GB 7200 RPM retail hard drive, $70 after $50 MIR. Yawn. I just RMAed one of these, but it was fine until it started dying a slow, agonizing death after a few months.
Conair 2 way FRS Radio, free after two rebates ($10 & $5).
Soyo 6-in-1 internal/external reader, $5 after $15 MIR. 2 USB ports, CF, SM, MS, SD, MMC & IBM. It fits in either a 3.5" or 5.25" case bay. I'm guessing you need an onboard USB header on your board to take advantage of the USB ports.
Bare XP2000+ CPU plus the Icky (er. ECS) K7S5A mobo, $100.
Complete "multimedia internet ready" PC, $200. This comes with a VIA C3 Samauel GigaPro 733 MHz processor, which will give my AMD K6-2 450 a run for its money, but is fine for web surfing and light office work (and uses so little energy and generates so little heat that it probably doesn't require a CPU fan). It has a 30 GB hard drive, a 52x CD-ROM, 128 MB of SDRAM and a 56K modem. The picture shows a keyboard and speakers as well, and I'll warrent it comes with a rodent of some descrption. The computer comes with ThizLinux, prebundled with a word processor, spreadsheet, HTML editor, graphics editors, web browsers, email clients, games and lots more! I'm not familiar with this distro, but I wonder if it actually works with the CNR modem, which is almost certainly a software "winmodem." I know someone who installed Windows 98SE on one of these a few months ago and gave it to a poor family (they wanted Windows so they could get AOL!) The recipients are thrilled with the thing, though it may not be the best value in a hot gaming rig for the enthusiast crowd. Incidentally, Fry's is selling this monster system for $100 at its new Las Vegas store. I'll take ten.
SKU: 3493323
Other OK deals:
Free Siemens Speedstream ethernet card after $10 MIR. As I recall, this NIC has a WOL cable.
Seagate 80 GB 7200 RPM retail hard drive, $70 after $50 MIR. Yawn. I just RMAed one of these, but it was fine until it started dying a slow, agonizing death after a few months.
Conair 2 way FRS Radio, free after two rebates ($10 & $5).
Soyo 6-in-1 internal/external reader, $5 after $15 MIR. 2 USB ports, CF, SM, MS, SD, MMC & IBM. It fits in either a 3.5" or 5.25" case bay. I'm guessing you need an onboard USB header on your board to take advantage of the USB ports.
Bare XP2000+ CPU plus the Icky (er. ECS) K7S5A mobo, $100.
Complete "multimedia internet ready" PC, $200. This comes with a VIA C3 Samauel GigaPro 733 MHz processor, which will give my AMD K6-2 450 a run for its money, but is fine for web surfing and light office work (and uses so little energy and generates so little heat that it probably doesn't require a CPU fan). It has a 30 GB hard drive, a 52x CD-ROM, 128 MB of SDRAM and a 56K modem. The picture shows a keyboard and speakers as well, and I'll warrent it comes with a rodent of some descrption. The computer comes with ThizLinux, prebundled with a word processor, spreadsheet, HTML editor, graphics editors, web browsers, email clients, games and lots more! I'm not familiar with this distro, but I wonder if it actually works with the CNR modem, which is almost certainly a software "winmodem." I know someone who installed Windows 98SE on one of these a few months ago and gave it to a poor family (they wanted Windows so they could get AOL!) The recipients are thrilled with the thing, though it may not be the best value in a hot gaming rig for the enthusiast crowd. Incidentally, Fry's is selling this monster system for $100 at its new Las Vegas store. I'll take ten.
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