Re: $200 PC

Noise?
You'd like a Sun Blade-2000 then. Good ducting design inside combined with decent fans that vary their speed depending on ambient conditions result in a very fast computer with a very quiet sound.
As far as an x86 low-end box, a year back Fry's electronics had a special on a $200 box with a Via C3 in it, passive heat sink on the CPU, and very small PS with quiet fan on it. Been running it with Linux for over a year as an email honeypot and Samba. Works fine. They seem to offer this budget box once a year, a few weeks after Christmas.

The only budget box I can find there now (www.outpost.com is their online store) is:
http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3541744#detailed A $179 box sans CPU, RAM, and HD.

Oh wait, here it is (now up to $249):
http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3521204/ Uses the Via C3 Samuel GigaPro 733MHz CPU. Just blow away the "ThizLinux" and run.

Regards, Scott

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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Ben Goren wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:08:31 -0700