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Re: [LUG] Laptop as a desktop replacement

 

On 22/04/10 11:58, John Hansen wrote:
On 22/04/2010 11:34, NW wrote:

As an alternative to a laptop you may care to buy a Foxconn Bare Bones
from microdirect f.inst.
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/43480/Foxconn-barebone-PC-system-R10-G4---LGA775.


I have two one with XP and one with Kubuntu.

You may then use your existing keyboard,monitor etc and get a new PC for
less
than £100.

Have a look and judge whether this is useful for you.


Not a bad little system, memory is reasonably cheap (possibly around £15 per gigabyte) and Celeron/Pentium Dual Core CPUs aren't too bad either.

Rob


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