Bryan Zimmer wrote: > I know of at least one person who is in need of a computer. Her motherboard > was fried and now the computer is of no use at all except for certain parts > (memory, hard drive, the sort of thing). It does not boot and has no CD-ROM > drive to boot from. > > I truly need to find something for her. She is not only a friend but sees me > as being able to "fix" most computer problems. I told her I couldn't > resurrect from the dead, but she still thinks I can produce a working > computer. I considered putting in a new motherboard, but the fact was that > the computer was beginning to enter its "twilight months". It was starting > to be one thing after another. Not worth the cost of repairs, many of which > were done as a favor to a friend. > > If anyone has, or know of a computer capable of running Windows XP (or > possibly she will resort to Linux...can Linux run AOL?), I would appreciate > it. What exactly does your friend do with a computer? If she's just using the internet over dialup (email, web browsing), and the occassional MSWord doc, she can probably get by with lower end hardware. I have an older P166 with 128 MB RAM that runs win2k respectibly. I was pretty surprised. I don't want to start a flame war, but on this same hardware IE6 is much faster for surfing then the latest Mozilla under Linux. Don't get me wrong, Linux as an OS is faster, but Mozilla is just a slow pig compared to IE on this old dog. My point is that there's plenty of old hardware (usually available for little or no cost), that still has plenty of usable life left in it. Why not put it to good use? Do most people really need a 2 or 3 Ghz processor with 128 or 256 MB of RAM on their video card just to write a word doc or check email? -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list