Sunday, April 18, 2010

New Computer Found at Yard Sale

I've been using a computer at the Local 67 office that is very slow. It has been around the office for about 8 years. I've done some tweaking to it but recently it has been giving me fits and I've been contemplating convincing the boss to allow me to purchase something a little better for the office. Anyway, this weekend I found this machine at a yard sale and felt the $100 asking price was too good to pass up.


The Specs are:
Pentium 4 2.6 MHZ Processor
1 Gig pc3200 DIMM Ram
2 X 250 GIG SATA Hard Drives
2 Plexar 48 X DVDR Drives
PNY 128 MB Video card
Built in Memory card Reader
4 port firewire card
HDMI output for movies
800 Watt Power Supply
All in a Beautiful Antec See through Tower


I installed Linux Ubuntu 9.1 without a hitch. The used an application called crossover to install some of my windows applications like Office and Frontpage. I'm new to Linux and am learning more each day. The system seems very stable and fast exactly what I need in my office. I purchased an additional gig of ram this morning for $29 so my total cost for the system is 129. Awesome!!!!! After playing around with this machine for a few days I have decided to keep it at home. I'll be selling my XP machine to the Union.

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