[lug] Computer rental [slightly OT]

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:24:07PM -0600, dio2002 at indra.com wrote:
>i was just in circuit city the other day and it looks like you can get a
>pretty similar unit with less RAM for $400.  Buy a ram upgrade and you're

You should buy all you can get of them then, because the raw CPU for that
class of machine is just a hair under a thousand dollars.  In particular,
the original poster was talking bout basically a top of the line desktop
box, Core 2 3GHz-ish would be "Core 2 Extreme X6800 Conroe 2.93GHz".
Newegg lists this at $968.

Unless the original poster is thing 3GHz in the old-style GHz...  The
equivalent of a 3GHz P4/P-D would be one of the lowest end Core 2 Duo
CPUs, $117 to $139 for a 1.7 to 2GHz CPU.  That's probably more realistic
to find available for rental.

Sean
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