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A PC For Tightwads

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pinching-a-penny-till-lincoln-cries dept.

ThinSkin writes "What can a $159 fetch you these days? Apparently a PC that includes Linspire, a keyboard, mouse, and speakers. ExtremeTech's Loyd Case took the plunge with this $159 PC and come out quite impressed--with a little cheating of course. From the article: 'If you're willing to spend just a bit more for some more memory, you'd end up with a highly capable light duty office system for less than buying Microsoft Windows and Office.'"

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  1. Re:cheap for a reason... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wasn't aware that developers needed multiple hard drives. A fast CPU helps, it really depends. Writing code and running software isn't necessarily processor intensive. But this isn't meant to be a developer computer, I really don't see why that's even mentioned.

    I thought ECS was some company that just makes junk disguised as something that might be useful.

    For game play, one might as well just stick to a console computer.