Cheap Computers

[nobody]

Hey everyone, what's a good place to find cheap computers and the like?
I want to get a linux box and maybe a cheap flat screen monitor or something, but I don't really know where to look. Dell and emachines both have a nice $399 box, but I'm sure there's better out there.

Thanks :)

[REEF·]

How about customizing :)?

- www.newegg.com
- www.tigerdirect.com

Dell.com gives great deals every week. There was this offer I saw last time: "Upgrade Free To A 17 LCD Monitor".
Cheap Flat Screen? Those cost like only 300 dollars :P.

[grinch]

By flat screen, do you mean CRT or LCD?
I have a 600$ CRT, it rocks way better then LCD for 3d.

[REEF·]

$600.00 CRT? You need to get a refund. Boy, you got ripped :P.

They sell CRTs on www.tigerdirect.com for like $50.00 and up.

Unless this is some super duper mini-plasma CRT :beam:.

[nobody]

I don't really care, it's not an image quality concern, it's the amount of space i have. So I honestly don't really care bout the quality and all. 300 dollars doesn't sound that bad to me.
thanks for the links

[λ]

Originally posted by xxviii
I don't really care, it's not an image quality concern, it's the amount of space i have. So I honestly don't really care bout the quality and all. 300 dollars doesn't sound that bad to me.
thanks for the links

Just thought you might want to know:

There's some technology called SSH that lets you control a remote Linux/Unix PC through another PC that is networked to it. You don't need a monitor to use it.

You can setup so the SSH server runs on startup, and then you only ever use SSH to administrate things - you don't need a monitor.

You'd need a monitor to setup your linux distro obviously, and I've not solved your problem if you want to run a GUI... and being new, I assume you do :-/

[Raver Ryan]

one word, ebay

[SureShot]

I would ask UNFLUX for a link to a good place, he reccommended one to Fester and he got a great machine at a cheap price. I can remember checking out the site he said and it did have great numbers... wish I knew it, but I am too lazy to do a search :)

Just look up "fester new rig" or something like that :) or you could just ask them I guess ;)

[nobody]

thanks guys, that's helpful, i remember the link you're talking about sureshot, and i was looking for it but didnt know where, now I have a starting point :)

njs, well I want a monitor for my computer, and I'd just use my crappy dell monitor for the linux box, and yeah i'd probably want all the pretty colors and stuff since i don't know crud about linux.

[Alucard]

Well, you could go to some not well known computer store in your town, city, village. And just browse until you find some kinda 200$ used computer and a 50$ monitor, then run to your biggest warehouse shop and buy some hardware upgrades for your computer (bring in your computer and let them compare parts to make shure it works). And then you have a sweet computer for 500$, seriously.

I payed 300$ for my 1ghz, 2monitor, 64mb graphics + 32mb graphics, 40gb hardrive, 512ram comp. :D

[nobody]

if i wasn't so lazy i would derinitely do that.

but sadly, i am that lazy

thanks for the idea though :)

[Alucard]

Ah, laziness. I love it. And hence, I love ebay *hint* *hint*

[fester8542]

Yup I got an incredible deal

here is the link

http://www.ibuypower.com/

[SureShot]

that's it!

Thanks Fester, I couldn't remember. i wonder if they ship to canada...

[Mik3]

embedded... $100 :D

[Mik3]

Yeah, I would recommend getting CRTs... they still seem to display 3d and antialiasing much better.

[λ]

Originally posted by t3h t3rminator
Yeah, I would recommend getting CRTs... they still seem to display 3d and antialiasing much better.

Antialias is better on flatpanels, for fonts at least...

http://grc.com/ctwhat.htm

[mdipi]

dont buy tigerdirect...you'll regret it...

[Mik3]

Originally posted by njs12345
Antialias is better on flatpanels, for fonts at least...

http://grc.com/ctwhat.htm

It probably depends on what moniter you have, because on my iMac CRT moniter everything is as smooth as can be.