[Pc_Support] MB/CPU combo for general office use

Jason Boxman jasonb at edseek.com
Mon Dec 19 20:28:39 EST 2005


William A. Mahaffey III said:
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> Oh, I can't resist .... WalMart has AMD Sempron-64 systems, model #
> SR1603WM-B, for $448.00, w/ XP already there, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD, w/
> 17" Flat-screen monitor, a turn-key solution. Buddy of mine got 1 for
> his daughter. Not bad for a 7-year-old girl to have her own 64-bit PC
> :-). It is (considerably) faster than CRAY's I worked on in the mid
> '80's ....

First you want to bump it up to 512M.  It's insane that in this day and age
XP systems don't come with at least 512M.  Even the junk cheap systems ought
to ship with 512M of RAM.






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