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Do those $50 garage sale PCs you mention come with Windows 10 Professional and a 1-year warranty from an established source? Have you even used this exact configuration or are you simply trashing it from afar?
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Nicely countered- thanks
What about this will cause it to run a browser “very slowly”?
[QUOTE=dalem589, post:22, topic:643588]
What about this will cause it to run a browser “very slowly”?
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Chrome with too many open tabs? Bandwidth from your service provider is usually the biggest bottleneck.
Agreed. The major “value add” with this is Win 10 Pro. Looking at eBay the cheapest machine is $89, but it slower and a smaller hard drive. The cheap ones have no OS.
Of course it will work, a little Honky-tonk though. For $20 you can get a videocard off of ebay that is a better solution for the audio thing, while also providing better video hardware than the integrated video.
here’s an example
ASUS EAH5450 SILENT/DI/1GD3(LP) ATI Radeon 1GB DDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card
Toss an inexpensive (<$40) 128G SSD into this in place of the hard drive and these machines really perform well for general use. Yes, a dual-core hard drive-based Win 10 computer can be a bit pokey with lots of programs running (and to start up), but the SSD remedies most if not all of that pretty effectively.
I have many such refurbs in use at customers and for use with Boy Scout leader training, and with an SSD this class of computer does very well indeed.
EDIT: I am always careful to keep regular image backups when using cheap SSDs (or any SSD for that matter) - when they die, they are gone, unlike hard drives which often die a slow death that lets you recover some files.
Wow now they are trying to get us to buy their E-waste.
[QUOTE=rpanic, post:27, topic:643588]
Wow now they are trying to get us to buy their E-waste.
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Actually, that would be Newegg, where one can still purchase a Pentium 4 of the “bad capacitors era” of a decade ago for a low low low price of $299.48 + $43.99 shipping!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0AJ2T46867
(Please do not!)
How about please do not bash NewEgg (or any other vendor for that matter)? I don’t see them attacking Woot, and they have a LOT more right to do so since Amazon took over. Pretty poor form for a moderator, if you ask me.
Go ahead and delete this comment. It would be true to form.
As for NewEgg, I have bought at least 10 Core 2 Duo / Dual Core Intel refurbs from them with similar specs for processor, RAM and hard drive for LESS than $100 even with shipping, so this Woot offering is nothing particularly spectacular. Only one of them has failed in the last two years, and that was a power supply. Pretty fair deal, if you ask me.
To be fair to Woot, neither of the $100 refurbs I have bought from Woot have failed, either.
My post was not a bash but a followup in jest to the “e-waste” comment, which this is not. That computer is much more of a Raiders of the lost Walmart than what’s typically sold at Newegg.
I am not staff and my posts are of my own. My voluntary moderator status is to help keep spammers away here at Woot.
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My post was not a bash but a followup in jest to the “e-waste” comment, which this is not. That computer is much more of a Raiders of the lost Walmart than what’s typically sold at Newegg.
I am not staff and my posts are of my own. My voluntary moderator status is to help keep spammers away here at Woot.
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Sorry, I find your response disingenuous and your position as a Woot moderator (volunteer or not) to be in conflict with your quite direct disrespecting of a competitor.
My son has a newegg Optilux 780 that died after 11 months. Would this replace it–and could he move the better video card that came with the old one? It won’t boot up anymore. It was just good enough for mild gaming that he likes (star wars stuff), he bought it with his babysitting money. I chose not to get involved in a 3rd party warranty claim, would rather he replace or repair.
Thanks.
Meanwhile my woot HP Pavilion from 3 years ago keeps humming along. Love it.
Wow… I remember when these were new in 2009.
These things were pretty damn reliable back then, but man… these suckers are so OLD now.
Win 10 pro is worthless, unless you like being spied on constantly. Then it’s worth every penny they charged you for it when they were giving it away.
Windows XP works better and faster than all the versions of windows that came after it. There was no reason to keep coming out with new windows other than suckers buying it.
Throw away computers like this all the time…
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Sorry, I find your response disingenuous and your position as a Woot moderator (volunteer or not) to be in conflict with your quite direct disrespecting of a competitor.
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Can’t we all just get along? Narf meant no disrespect. He’s cool. Your cool. We’re all cool. 
You can’t consider Win 10 a “part”, since you won’t be able to transfer it to another machine.
Clearly, we have some computer snobs here.
Yes, this is an older model computer that is not fast by today’s standards. But for doing what most people do with a computer, browse the web and e-mail; it is perfectly fine.
RE Newegg… To be fair, it is not Newegg that’s throwing that obscene deal up on the wall to see if it sticks - it is a third party’s using Newegg’s storefront.
Do we really expect storefronts to strong arm the prices their sellers post? Isn’t that what Google is for - to very easily check prices?
Regardless of the vendor, that is a silly deal and using it as an example seems to illustrate the point nicely.