Mint Wrote:
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" wow..no floppy. welcome to 10 years ago"


Hmmm .... 10 yrs ago a machine with a 233mhz processor, 32megs of ram, onboard stereo 2.0 audio/shitty video, 8X CD-RW drive, 20 gig HD, floppy drive, keeboard, mouse, one case fan & a 15" monitor sold for $2000 with a 1st gen DVD ROM as a $200 add on, and Windows 95 was the OS commonly found.

By comparison this system has a 2.13mhz dual core processor with a sweet CPU cooler/fan (CPU temp at a cool 93 degrees at full tilt boogie), 3 additional system fans, MoBo with onboard 7.1 HD digital audio, 6 USB 2.0 ports, firewire port, 10/100/1000 ethernet port, Nvidia based ASUS video card w/PCI express and 128 megs of onboard DDR2 ram (<- X4 ++ the memory of what the above system itself had!), 1-VGA out, 1-DV-I out and a composite video out, 2gigs of DDR2 system ram, 16X DVD-RW drive, 1-250gig HD, secondary 300gig slave HD (both with individual fan cooled aluminum enclosures), all resting nicely in a completely all aluminum case, wireless USB trackball mouse/USB keeboard and runnin on a rockin Linux OS - Ubuntu 7.04 with a total investment of just under $1000.

Welcome to 10yrs ago .... no thanks