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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2012, 11:42:21 pm »
Something's really wacked out about that site O.o




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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2012, 09:16:10 am »
I bought my old P4 computer for 75$ as a open box item that "didn't work" (IE wouldnt boot). I opened the case and looked inside. One of the drive cables was loose (hard drive i think)... Secured the cable and the computer worked fine. :) I was initially planning on buying a hard drive and setting it up and still having a really cheap computer, but in the end I didn't have to spend anything extra. ;D
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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2012, 11:07:02 am »
I got my computer for $10.

Its an emachines T2482 with only 512MB RAM, but go beat that for $10. :D



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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2012, 11:08:12 am »
I wonder if anybody really got one of those computers for this cheap or if the company decided to abort the sale/shipping?

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2012, 11:09:12 am »
I got my computer for $10.

Its an emachines T2482 with only 512MB RAM, but go beat that for $10. :D

A portable computer for 0€, given by the Conseil Général du Département... :p But very crappy (Vista + 1Ghz Proc monocore + 440MB Ram)

Made him BSOD with Blender :/

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2012, 11:31:05 am »
@flyingfisch:Nice!

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2012, 01:06:08 pm »
I got my computer for $10.

Its an emachines T2482 with only 512MB RAM, but go beat that for $10. :D
0$ on an awful emachines t2042 that i pieced together from scraps. the monitor came from someone's grandparents (who were upgrading to an i7 with 8 gigs of ram and a TB hard drive XD), the keyboard and other peripherals from various places. a pci board for extra usb slots from an older computron that someone was tossing out, a hard drive and processor from yet another computer being tossed. extra RAM that was just laying around, and a tower from a police auction XD

2 gigs of RAM, 2.4 GHz, 8 gigHDD, and this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/doctorwho/9223/

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2012, 04:27:10 pm »
I got my computer for $10.

Its an emachines T2482 with only 512MB RAM, but go beat that for $10. :D
0$ on an awful emachines t2042 that i pieced together from scraps. the monitor came from someone's grandparents (who were upgrading to an i7 with 8 gigs of ram and a TB hard drive XD), the keyboard and other peripherals from various places. a pci board for extra usb slots from an older computron that someone was tossing out, a hard drive and processor from yet another computer being tossed. extra RAM that was just laying around, and a tower from a police auction XD

2 gigs of RAM, 2.4 GHz, 8 gigHDD, and this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/doctorwho/9223/

lol cool :)



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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2012, 10:38:56 am »
I got most of my working computers for free, ranging from a P3 with (nearly) 512 MB to a Powermac 7100/66 (It can't run linux D:)
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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2012, 01:48:21 pm »
I got my computer for $10.

Its an emachines T2482 with only 512MB RAM, but go beat that for $10. :D
0$ on an awful emachines t2042 that i pieced together from scraps. the monitor came from someone's grandparents (who were upgrading to an i7 with 8 gigs of ram and a TB hard drive XD), the keyboard and other peripherals from various places. a pci board for extra usb slots from an older computron that someone was tossing out, a hard drive and processor from yet another computer being tossed. extra RAM that was just laying around, and a tower from a police auction XD

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I have that same USB hub, and I love it.


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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2012, 02:43:36 pm »
The first computer I got was for free too, but it was in 2004 and was a Pentium II 350 MHz with 128 MB of RAM and a 20 GB hard drive at that time. It ran Windows 2000 (which was stable, but when it crashed it was over)

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2012, 10:10:09 pm »
Oh the horror of seeing that screenshot!
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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2012, 12:19:34 am »
I get free computers all the time. Usually they don't work :P but I can fix that. Dead mobo? Good, this one over here has a dead PSU, and this one has no HD, etc. until I end up with n-1 computers :P

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #28 on: February 21, 2012, 12:20:37 am »
Now if only you lived close to me, you could fix my mom's laptop maybe? :P (Actually I think Juju might be able to, but I'm unsure, especially considering it's a laptop)

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Re: lol $29.99 Intel Core i7 computer?
« Reply #29 on: February 21, 2012, 12:34:01 am »
laptops are harder, depending on the problem. HDs and RAM are still fairly simple, but anything else internal becomes a massive hassle (excepting virus problems) because of specialized parts.

Any idea what's wrong with it?