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On 14/12/11 16:50, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, raymond.knowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Don't do it, they're basically the newer versions of AcerPower 1000s which I once removed from a London primary school by the trolley load when they all blew up after a power surge. That's the ones that hadn't already had a component failure due to overheating. They're basically customised laptop boards crammed into a mini case with a full size HD so the cooling is rubbish and all the parts are proprietary - forget upgrades or easy fixes. The only thing worth keeping out of these units will be the HDs and a 250Gb SATA2 isn't exactly anything to write home about. The RAM will be laptop style, thus more expensive. Nvidia 9200 is a woefully under-specced integrated gfx solution and the Neo K325 isn't a competitive CPU either: even with vdpau output enabled under linux it's going to really, really struggle to output HD. Basically, this is a crap computer and nobody should think about buying one. Quite frankly, I wouldn't even pick these up from freecycle for nothing, let alone pay money for them. If you need a £100 computer, beg/borrow/steal any random case + optical drive and order cheap mobo+cpu+RAM deal from scan or somewhere. Mat |
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