Re:Build a $150 Linux PC
by listic on Thursday June 05, 2008 @09:15AM
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It's actually a 1200 MHz Celeron with the Core 2 Architecture (Conroe-L), with 533 MHz FSB
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I guess I was in error, then, but I don't see that 1200 figure noted anywhere on that page, so I'm going to call it an honest mistake ;-).
But still, the machine mentioned is no better than the PC I bought 6 years ago before my freshman year of college (and currently have sitting in the closet because I have no use for it). It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB ram, 60 GB hard drive, CD-RW and DVD drives, and a GeForce2 graphics card, and it was far from top of the line when I bought it for somewhere between $600-800 (I don't remember). Oh, and it came with Windows XP, which served me well for four years before I replaced it with FreeBSD.