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

venkman

venkman

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

She was REAL smart.
 
Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
You didn't build a computer, you upgraded an old one and reused old parts...
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A case, PS, HD, and Burner would have cost me another $125. still dang cheap
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there. 😛
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Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.
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then i'll migrate their copy of XP
 
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
 
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. 😛
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Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.
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then i'll migrate their copy of XP
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was it an OEM?
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Nope, i actually bought a retail copy of XP back in the day. 😉
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: venkman

ll get a copy of XP from school, so no big deal there. 😛
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Hope you dont plan on lifting it or giving them an Edu copy. Both of which are illegal.
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Careful with those handcuffs, McGruff
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.
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Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.
 
Originally posted by: Spineshank
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.
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Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.
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Real men use 3.11 and that's why we are so critical.
 
Originally posted by: Spineshank
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
Man there are to many lawyers here worried about what Operating System people are running.
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Yea, seriously. Who cares what OS he is running or where he got it from.
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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.
 
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
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that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.
 
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
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that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.
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yea, that's where win98 topped out at. amazing isn't it?
 
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
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that's a lotta ram for a p2 and win98.
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yea, that's where win98 topped out at. amazing isn't it?
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I was excited when I upgraded my P2- 266 from 32 to 64 mb.
 
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