I need help picking out components for a $150 computer. Note that I dont want this computer for gaming. In fact I want to resell it to make some money. I live in the US so newegg is fine. I allready have a spare DVD drive, a 10/100 network adapter, mouse, kayboard and monitor.
Including monitor? Not possible, shipping on that and the case is gonna eat $30 from your budget. I like a good challenge but this is just crazy talk :)
Ok how about restating what I sayed, what is the best computer one can get for under $150 (already have components allready stated), and ignore everything else. And jesus WTF this is not a joke thread, do people find it funny for a guy to be asking help?
Ok how about restating what I sayed, what is the best computer one can get for under $150 (already have components allready stated), and ignore everything else. And jesus WTF this is not a joke thread, do people find it funny for a guy to be asking help?swordtossZ
The prices I gave you are the cheapest available from newegg. That's why people think it's a joke thread, because it's an impossible dream. And don't bring Jesus into this....he's on our side ;)
Here's as cheap as I can get it. $189 off Newegg including Xandros OS. I'm thinking if you just get a free solution such as Ubuntu, that'll be about as close as you're going to get.
 Intel Celeron D 331
PC Chips Motherboard Â
APIDA 256MB DDR400
Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM HardriveÂ
Link World case w/ power supplyÂ
Xandros Retail OS (Again, try a free solution)
 This is as low as I can go. I obviously question the power of the system, but more importantly, I question how long it will even last.Â
Unless you install windows 98, the OS is going to cost you at least $100. (ignoring the existance of Linux at the moment). This is impossible. You can get the guts of the PC for close to $150 but the rest of the computer is going to nickel and dime you. Mouse, keyboard, speakers, (can you even buy a crt monitor anymore?) You cannot build this computer, out of the box functional, with an OS for $150.
It seems that the more expensive a system gets, the more money you are going to save when building it yourself. But if you are looking for a budget system, it might be better to go with a pre-built system since they get the parts on discount from large orders.
There are sites out there that sell systems around that price. They are P3 and early P4 generation systems often with Linux, but this may be the solution for you.
 And later, you can upgrade with Windows. But with those PC's, I would probably go with Windows 2000 Professional... assuming that you would only want to do basic things with this system. Since that's basically all you can do in the first place.
Old free systems from big companies, I work for the military and when computers die, they pretty much just trash them, and they gotta destroy the hard drives and such, but floppys, old CD rom drives, tons of cases are, I'm sure, easy enough to find of really old ones in a situation like that. It's illegal to take one, though, I think.. Even though they are physically all stuffed into a large trash container :p I dunno who'd mind; or who'd want one for that matter.
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