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Building 2011's Sub-$200 Computer

Posted by timothy on from the trade-one-form-of-depreciation-for-another dept.

adeelarshad82 links to PC Magazine's recent account (updating a similar quest detailed last year) "to see if a decent PC could put together for less than $200. Turns out that between some great deals, an AMD processor, and a Linux OS, it can actually be done." They actually come out with a decent-enough system for that money — but omitting an optical drive in a full-size desktop computer build seems something like cheating.

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  1. Re: optical drive by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is this "Audio CD" you speak of? Is it like an Audi TT?

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  2. Re:All recent Computer architectures are dogs. by obarthelemy · · Score: 3, Funny

    your spelling is about as good as your thinking.

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