Hmm.

[mdlbear]

Fry's doesn't seem to have their $250 Windows boxen on sale today, but they do have $450 laptops. Of course, at that price they're probably junk (my experiences with off-brand laptops have not been happy ones), and it's still $200 more than I was planning to spend. It would probably have trouble running Linux, too -- laptop displays are notoriously weird. The Cygwin X server would mitigate that problem, of course.

... OK, I wasn't looking hard enough. It's on the back page of their Friday flier; twice as fast a CPU as the laptop, and I know it runs Linux. Pretty easy two-stage install: use Xandros to resize the NTFS partition, then blow it away and replace with DeMuDi or Etch. (Sigh! I was thinking of getting a flash recorder with that money...)

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[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

Do you guys have a PC Club up there? They've usually got Windows boxen well equipped for around 300, and they're really nice folks. We bought Barney's new box from them just a few weeks ago.

[mdlbear]

I don't recall ever seeing one. In any case, the Fry's box is a known quantity -- the flower_cat has one. Rather wimpy on RAM (only 128MB), but a CDRW/DVD combo drive and a 40GB hard drive. For the price, I'm not complaining.