On 6/10/08, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at 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?