On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:48 pm, marcia wrote:
Dear All,
Dell has a special for $499. In reality to get it to be an acceptable deal it comes closer to $750. He wants a printer and scanner as well and I wondered if the all in one Dell model will work with Linux. This is the advertised TV special that has been on lately. His father(my husband) wants to purchase this soon but does not want to go over the $700 range. It is a challenge so far to get everything right so that it is a good computer for his son's needs at that price.
Any suggestions? My stepson is open to athlon or pentiums and probably needs some kind of support that is decent as well as good warranties all in the $700 range . It would be better if Linux is already installed with the windows since he has never done that sort of thing and I live many miles away from him. I would otherwise install linux for him.
Don't overlook the obvious. Wal-Mart. No Joke! I've been buying thier blank machines for $200 and putting SuSE 9.0/9.1 on em and they work fine. Come with 30 gig hd, and all the goodies built in, plus you can get them with Lindows/linspire installed for about the same or a few bucks more. I have 4 of them running continuously in an office since Aug 03 with nary a hitch. About 250 for a decent lcd or less for a real nice 19" crt and 65 or 85 bucks for a good hp printer and you're in business. That works out to be about $500.O0 or less. It's a little bit of work but nothing difficult. ra Old age ain't for Sissies!