Trolling ebay for computers: Chips ahoy!

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

The downside to the $200.00 Walmart PC is that it has a VIA C3, and 128MB 
of memory--part of which it steals for video.  And it may not have an AGP 
slot to add a different card.  However, the same box is available with 
Lycoris or no OS, or for another $100.00 with WinXP home.  I think it will 
go to 1GB of memory, and there are still decent PCI video cards out there.

Walmart also sells systems with Mandrake, but not the cheap one.  Their 
higher-end systems seem not to be priced quite so irresistibly, and still 
use onboard shared-RAM video.

I have to second Lonni's criticism of Tiger, though must admit to being one 
of those who has had good luck with them.  It comes from their originally 
(and still to some extent) being a vendor of surplus merchandise.  The 
"house brand" (Systemax) PCs they sell are also available from Global 
Computer Supplies (http://www.globalcomputer.com/main/home.jsp).  And the 
Vision systems are available direct--though on their site you have to be 
careful or you get redirected to Tiger.

At 09:18 AM 12/13/02 -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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>Bill Day spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > I would consider TigerDirect route as well... I have been fairly pleases
> > with items I have gootne from there.
> >
>check out
>http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=106560&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A106562%3A10650
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>walmart.com now sells Lindows pcs for $200
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