Campitor
February 11th, 2007, 06:12 PM
Hello all:
I received 500 dollars from my department, and I really want to buy a computer to replace my old desktop. I know 500 bucks is not much, but some options are available. I need a cheap comp, small size (need to put it in a suitcase and take it home when I finish my degree).
I was thinking of getting the HP Pavilion Slimline s7700e series, with AMD Sempron 3500+ and 1GB of RAM. This comes to about 480 bucks. I was wondering if any of you had experience setting up ubuntu on one of these machines. I plan to put Dapper on it (ubuntu versions come out too fast for me to catch up, so LTS is my thing).
Or, if anybody would suggest a better option with similar configuration and SMALL size. I've looked at laptops, but nothing has picked my fancy just yet.
Thanks in advance for your comments....
Camp
I received 500 dollars from my department, and I really want to buy a computer to replace my old desktop. I know 500 bucks is not much, but some options are available. I need a cheap comp, small size (need to put it in a suitcase and take it home when I finish my degree).
I was thinking of getting the HP Pavilion Slimline s7700e series, with AMD Sempron 3500+ and 1GB of RAM. This comes to about 480 bucks. I was wondering if any of you had experience setting up ubuntu on one of these machines. I plan to put Dapper on it (ubuntu versions come out too fast for me to catch up, so LTS is my thing).
Or, if anybody would suggest a better option with similar configuration and SMALL size. I've looked at laptops, but nothing has picked my fancy just yet.
Thanks in advance for your comments....
Camp