[BNM] Where to buy the world cheapest pc?

[Paul Howard]

On 4/3/06, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> Really? My laptop is only a slightly higher spec than that and it runs
> like lightning... I attribute a lot of that to not running windows or any of
> its variants on it, but even when I did run windows on it, and on one a lot
> slower it was more than powerful enough to do anything I wanted... have you
> tried reformatting it? Running Sandra and looking for bottlenecks? Or even
> running linux on it, using something like rythmbox or amaroK to play mp3s
> etc... it shouldn't be struggling!
>
>
>

Only reason I'm running windows on it is so I can use my Ipod properly. Also
trying to get H264 videos to play under Linux is not easy. Its a fresh
install so no problems software wise - it's just monster slow - checking for
updated podcasts in Itunes takes up 100% processor.


--
Paul Howard

http://www.phoward.com
SIP: 17472444266 at proxy01.sipphone.com
Tel: +44 (0)870-068-6141