Hi list,
Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on www.consumeraffairs.com. I didn't take the time to do a thourgh search so may have missed some. Red Hat hardware list does not have one eMachine listed. I went to eMachine's home page and found the following:
AMD Athlon™ BE-2350 dual-core processor NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 2048MB DDR2 dual-channel 320GB 7200rpm SATA II 16x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio
They do not list the manufacturer/model of the media card reader and audio.
Any hardware guru see any problems?
on 6-10-2008 12:07 PM Bob Taylor spake the following:
Hi list,
Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on www.consumeraffairs.com. I didn't take the time to do a thourgh search so may have missed some. Red Hat hardware list does not have one eMachine listed. I went to eMachine's home page and found the following:
AMD Athlon™ BE-2350 dual-core processor NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 2048MB DDR2 dual-channel 320GB 7200rpm SATA II 16x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio
They do not list the manufacturer/model of the media card reader and audio.
Any hardware guru see any problems?
Looking at my bestbuy ad, that machine is going for about $400 here. Probably a good deal at less than $300. If this is the machine, eMachines T5254 Desktop Computer, this page will give you some specs; http://support.gateway.com/emachines/emac/1015304R/1015304Rcl3.shtml
On 6/10/08, Bob Taylor bob8221@gmail.com wrote:
Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on www.consumeraffairs.com. I didn't take the time to do a thourgh search so may have missed some. Red Hat hardware list does not have one eMachine listed. I went to eMachine's home page and found the following:
AMD Athlon™ BE-2350 dual-core processor NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) 6100 2048MB DDR2 dual-channel 320GB 7200rpm SATA II 16x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio
They do not list the manufacturer/model of the media card reader and audio.
Any hardware guru see any problems?
HW guru I am not. Linux guru I am not. I have a suggestion for you, which I believe is a valid one: Take a Knoppix Live CD (that you've previously tested on another box and know is working properly) or a CentOS Live CD, with you to the store. Boot the box with it and see if the HW works with Linux, before you buy. Preferably, do this on *the* box you are going to buy, in case the HW in the floor sample and the one you are going to buy are not identical. Sounds very cheap and I'd like to have one too. Does Best Buy let one bring something back, for a refund, within a certain number of days, if they are not satisfied with the product?
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:41 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 6/10/08, Bob Taylor bob8221@gmail.com wrote:
Best Buy currently has an eMachine on sale for less than $300.00 without monitor. I didn't see any recent complaints on
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HW guru I am not. Linux guru I am not. I have a suggestion for you, which I believe is a valid one: Take a Knoppix Live CD (that you've previously tested on another box and know is working properly) or a CentOS Live CD, with you to the store. Boot the box with it and see if the HW works with Linux, before you buy. Preferably, do this on *the* box you are going to buy, in case the HW in the floor sample and the one you are going to buy are not identical.
Sheesh! Gotta get my brain working properly! I should have thought of that. Still thinking I have a dial up Internet connection.
Sounds very cheap and I'd like to have one too. Does Best Buy let one bring something back, for a refund, within a certain number of days, if they are not satisfied with the product?
Dunno. I would presume yes.
Bob Taylor wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:07:59 -0700:
Any hardware guru see any problems?
I'm not a hardware guru, but the CPU and chipset work just fine with CentOS. lm_sensors may not work, though. If they have a 4850 machine for only a few bucks more, I'd go with that.
Kai
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:07 -0700, Bob Taylor wrote:
AMD Athlon™ BE-2350 dual-core processor NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 2048MB DDR2 dual-channel 320GB 7200rpm SATA II 16x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti drive High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader 6-channel (5.1) high-definition audio
They do not list the manufacturer/model of the media card reader and audio.
Non-laptop media readers are usually USB which means that they use the standard usb-storage module.
"High-definition audio" usually refers to the snd-hda-intel ALSA module. I haven't yet had any luck getting the one on my laptop to work with CentOS 5.1, but that's not a definitive contraindication.
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