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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Dust on March 23, 2010, 12:49:52 am
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I have done quite a bit of searching for cheap computers. I am not talking about $300 - $400 computers, I am looking for a VERY cheap computer that I can use as a very basic web server. I have been looking to book sized computers, but I don't want to spend TOO much on this project. I am just curious if anyone knows of any computers (I don't care about the specs at all, I have a hard drive and some older ram that I can upgrade with) for less than $100. I have no requirements on the specs or anything. If it's less than $100, please post it.
I have done quite a bit of searching and all I could find is a $140 refurbished Dell computer but the site was sketchy. I don't care much about the condition, as long as it works and I don't care if it's used or refurbished.
I have also checked craigslist but there's nothing in my area that is what I'm looking for (most of them are full PC combos for $300+). I am looking for just a tower, maybe even barebones.
Thanks a bunch.
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you should be able to find a really cheap second hand computer on your local e-bay equivalent. i don't know of a single place you can get a new computer for under $100 since they'd be better off re-selling the psu and case
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i'm not sure about where you live but you could always try local second-hand places or flea markets or shit like that, you might be able to find one. i really don't think you're going to find a regular store that does this sort of thing, craigslist/ebay/physical stores are your best bet.
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Where do you live? I can sell you one for about $120. It has:
Pentium 4 2.8ghz
1 GB 2700 RAM (upgradeable to 4GB I believe)
DVD/RW/RAM Burner
1 TB Hard Drive
Legit Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
I'll sell it for $60 if you'll take a 40gb used hard drive as opposed to the 1TB new drive.
Shipping hasn't been factored into this yet but I need to find out where you live first.
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Where do you live? I can sell you one for about $120. It has:
Pentium 4 2.8ghz
1 GB 2700 RAM (upgradeable to 4GB I believe)
DVD/RW/RAM Burner
1 TB Hard Drive
Legit Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
I'll sell it for $60 if you'll take a 40gb used hard drive as opposed to the 1TB new drive.
Shipping hasn't been factored into this yet but I need to find out where you live first.
man, is it bad that this machine is better than mine?
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I'll sell it for $60 if you'll take a 40gb used hard drive as opposed to the 1TB new drive.
I live in New York, any estimate of what the shipping would be with the 40 GB HDD? Zip code is 14623.
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Okay, I looked it up on USPS and UPS and it seems like UPS is the more cost efficient route. I'd be shipping it from Minnesota - it's going to cost around $15 to ship and take 3 days to get there.
With the 40GB drive and shipping factored, total cost comes to $75. Choose your pre-installed OS (I'll give you the disc and code too, of course) and I'll ship it off tomorrow if you can pay today through PayPal.
I recommend XP for no other reason than that this computer doesnt have a good enough onboard GPU to run aero in Vista/7 (and I have a lot more XP keys than 7 lol)... oh yeah and XP is kind of a workhorse.
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How much cheaper do you want this thing to go? I kind of want the DVD burner in it since it's pretty new. If you don't think you'll have much use for that in this machine, I can switch it out with an old DVD rom drive and knock $10 off the price.
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Anyone else know of anything else like this? I've been thinking about getting something like that to use as a server machine as well
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Dust and I have been PMing back and forth - there's a small chance he might find an alternative computer/way to host this web server of his on.
I hate to do this but just for curiosity's sake, is anyone else interested in buying this? The machine is worth more than I am asking if eBay is anything to go by. It is also worth noting that the case it is housed in is brand new and can be found here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811233062
For $60:
Mobo + CPU + RAM + 40GB HDD + Basic DVD Rom drive + Case
+$10
Newer (less than a year old) Lite-on DVD Burner
+$70
Brand new Hitachi 1 TB hard drive
Anyone willing on turning this into an auction? lol
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man isn't there some new computer that is meant for things just like this that's really cheap and the entire thing is built into the brick that plugs into the wall? aghghgh i wish i could remember the name of the company that makes these but i'm pretty sure they're for sale now, you can connect them to the network and ssh into them to put data on them
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do like I did and live in Connecticut, find somebody selling a pc at a yard sale for cheap because of some minor hardware problem they can't be arsed to deal with and fix it because you're cool like that, you're cool like that
but seriously I found a laptop for I dunno, $15 and only thing wrong with it was the hard drive was fucked. And I got a new hard drive for free from a Hungarian man and that and one illegal copy of winxp later it worked perfectly fine!!
lesson being capitalize on people's stupidity/laziness/rich bastards who would rather just get a macbook than deal with it-ness
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Man what Ragnar says is so true. Shame usually the computers I find in yard sales are really old pieces of shit not worth fixing whatever minor problem they have. Given that our family already has 6 computers, 3 of which are gaming computers... we really have no use for any more computers.
I have a neighbor though that goes through laptops like toilet paper. He makes a lot of money and prefers to just get a new one when something goes wrong than try to fix whatever issue is wrong with his current.
Also for the record, the computer I was offering is no longer for sale. My drug addict uncle apparently needs a system and my mom has paid me hansomely to give it to him. Sorry Dust, but you didn't pay up quick enough :welp:
You'll figure something out.
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I think statistically it's the hard drive that stops working like 99.9% of the time, right? So I was making that point, is you don't even have to have extensive knowledge just knowledge enough to put in a new HD
do most people even know to check the BIOS and see that the laptop isn't detecting a hard drive etc. the fact that the BIOS stuff might start but Windows won't and the significance of that (for a while there I had a broken hard drive myself and managed to get by for 3 months or so with a Linux Live CD - and basically since 95% of the public doesn't care about computer for anything but internet email porn youtubes this could be acceptable - and the 10% of that 95 could probably manage combined with a pen drive for shit they have to save - and you can get like 2GB pen drives just for trying out a carpet shampooer seriously there are businesses now that do promotional things like this aren't there when the fuck did america become japan - what I'm saying is there is basically no excuse that you can't acquire a computer that can do the standard minimum of stuff for like, $10)
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For around $200 you can have a computer with the following specs: 1.2GHz Intel Celeron 220 processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB SATA hard drive and a small 90W power supply – more than enough juice to run your favorite Linux distro.