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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi Just wondered if this sound a good deal http://www.ebuyer.com/product/236579 I am not looking for anything hi spec, my current duron 1600 gets used for e-mail, web browsing, music, and watching vidoes, etc, I could easily add an external DVD drive if I wanted to watch dvd's I will probably run games on it, such as glest, wesnoth and perhaps open / alien arena and a few other modern Linux games which my current system (mainly due to geforce4 graphics) struggle with. the version of Linux aside, I will put something like ubuntu on it anyway, I take it there are LInux drivers for nvidia ION graphics chip sets. ? Just wondered what people thought to this as a budget system,
My own workstation has been a dual-dore 1.6GHz Atom system (2GB RAM) for the past 18 months or so. Intel graphics. Works just fine at 1280x1024 (as that's the only monitor I have) I run Debian on mine, but have a custom kernel and am running firefox 4.
£184 gets you a nice box, but if you want to build it from bits you can probably do-so for a bit less. (e.g. if you already had a case & PSU, etc.)
Gordon
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