I just built my parents a computer.....

[venkman]

for $190 dollars :Q :Q


E7400
4 GB RAM
G31 Mobo w/ Video, Audio, Networking
Resued Case, PS, HD, and Burner
Windows 7

dang......crap is cheap

 

[RadiclDreamer]

And windows 7 is a RC and will go tits up on them soon.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
And windows 7 is a RC and will go tits up on them soon.

Yeah...give em ubuntu or something.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

You didn't build a computer, you upgraded an old one and reused old parts...

 

[venkman]

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

 

[SirChadwick]

Ubuntu!!!!!!! Yea, like that one girl who said her computer was useless with it and made the news.

She was REAL smart.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
You didn't build a computer, you upgraded an old one and reused old parts...

A case, PS, HD, and Burner would have cost me another $125. still dang cheap

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.

then i'll migrate their copy of XP

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.

then i'll migrate their copy of XP

was it an OEM?

 

[sourceninja]

I just gave my grandfather a 'new' computer. He's like 75 years old and only uses his computer to read weather sites and write email. AMD XP 3000, 2 gigs of ram, nvidia 5900 XT and ubuntu. All of that in a shuttle case I had laying around with parts I found in my closet. He's happy as a clam.

His old computer was a PII 450 with 256 megs of ram and windows 98

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: mundane

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.

then i'll migrate their copy of XP

was it an OEM?

Nope, i actually bought a retail copy of XP back in the day.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer

Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there.

Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.

Careful with those handcuffs, McGruff

 

[13Gigatons]

Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.

 

[sourceninja]

Actually, I've found it easy to get out of doing support for my friends by refusing to work on computers running unlicensed versions of windows. This has also led to me converting at least 7 people to linux and 2 to osx. The OSX ones are a stretch as they bought new computers to solve the problems, but the linux ones were directly to me refusing to help them as long as they were running windows without a valid license.

To date I only know one person who did not just find someone else to help them or switched to linux. He actually went out and bought retail windows vista and came back to get help.

 

[Spineshank]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.

Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Spineshank

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.

Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.

Real men use 3.11 and that's why we are so critical.

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: Spineshank

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.

Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.

It's a tough choice when you're upgrading/revamping a computer, the damn OS price seems to be so inflated you're adding 50% or better to your costs.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I just gave my grandfather a 'new' computer. He's like 75 years old and only uses his computer to read weather sites and write email. AMD XP 3000, 2 gigs of ram, nvidia 5900 XT and ubuntu. All of that in a shuttle case I had laying around with parts I found in my closet. He's happy as a clam.

His old computer was a PII 450 with 256 megs of ram and windows 98

that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I just gave my grandfather a 'new' computer. He's like 75 years old and only uses his computer to read weather sites and write email. AMD XP 3000, 2 gigs of ram, nvidia 5900 XT and ubuntu. All of that in a shuttle case I had laying around with parts I found in my closet. He's happy as a clam.

His old computer was a PII 450 with 256 megs of ram and windows 98

that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.

yea, that's where win98 topped out at. amazing isn't it?

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: rasczak

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I just gave my grandfather a 'new' computer. He's like 75 years old and only uses his computer to read weather sites and write email. AMD XP 3000, 2 gigs of ram, nvidia 5900 XT and ubuntu. All of that in a shuttle case I had laying around with parts I found in my closet. He's happy as a clam.

His old computer was a PII 450 with 256 megs of ram and windows 98

that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.

yea, that's where win98 topped out at. amazing isn't it?

I was excited when I upgraded my P2- 266 from 32 to 64 mb.

 

[Chryso]

I hear you can get OS/2 Warp really cheap these days.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
And windows 7 is a RC and will go tits up on them soon.

Yeah...give em ubuntu or something.

HAHAHAHA.

 

[sourceninja]

As far as I can tell his computer was bought that way from gateway. It even had a 3dfx graphics card!

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
As far as I can tell his computer was bought that way from gateway. It even had a 3dfx graphics card!

Voodo 2 or Voodo 3.