Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[parwrench]

picked up for just over 200$ .. came with xp.... not any more. installed puppy 4.31 from a 2 gig jump drive without a hitch cept some dummy forgot to make the partition bootable.
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/acer-aspire-revo-ar1600/4505-3118_7-33777218.html

i am impressed with graphix and hd audio. i have paid more for video cards in the old days.
hmmmm....theres only 1 screw in the case...i wonder what happens when i take it out????

acer aspire revo r1600
intel atom 230@1.6ghz
1 gig ddr ram
nvidia ion graphics 512mb
intel hd audio

[mrreality13]

[Aitch]

I don't like Acer, but I gotta include this one @ £150

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/09/02/acer-aspire-revo-3600-hits-back-at-eee-box/

The Aspire Revo3600 has Nvidia Ion full 1080p graphics engine
+ Atom 230 processor & up to 1Gb DDR ram

Look out for dual Atom powered versions with Nvidia Ion in netbooks soon

I might even upgrade my CarPC project with one of them....

If only someone would do a LinuxICE with Puppy instead of *buntu...

Aitch

[oldroy]

Hello,

I am retired and volunteer a couple of time per week at a local thrift store where people often dump off obsolete computers, etc that we usually haul to the recycling center at our own expense.

Typically:

160 mhz pentium
48 meg EDO RAM
CDROM drive (Won't boot from that, have to use floppy)
Serial mouse only
2 hard drives, 1 6.4 gig, 1 about 1 gig , both wiped clean

Partitioned both drives, linux swap file, ext3 file system

Used wakepup and booted from Puppy 4.3 CD

Worked but glacially slow.

Found a couple of 32 meg EDO RAM chips my junk and installed.

Did Puppy full install.

I am typing this on that machine now and its not the fastest thing in the world but its tolerable and user friendly. Not bad for a free computer.

FWIW I have Lighthouse pup on an old HP 4150 that my totally non-geeky wife uses and als have a Debian lenny box.

[amigo]

You'll find that a normal installation to hard drive will work better on such low-end hardware.

[looseSCREWorTWO]

Here in New South Wales they have some funny laws designed to keep Insurance Companies (and Micro$oft ?) happy, which means few of the Thrift stores sell second-hand electronics, including computers. This only applies to New South Wales - in other Australian States the Thrift Stores and the Opp Shops sell heaps of electronic goods.

The good news is that we can buy computers from Recycling Centres and Garbage Tips for $5 - $20. Usually they don't work, but usually it's cos some dweeb in the IT Department pulled out the RAM and the Hard Drive (or wiped the HDD clean) before the company tossed the PC in the rubbish bin.

The Recycling Centres also sell computer bits and pieces cheap, so for well under $50 you can put together a working Dinosaur PC, then install Puppy Linux and the Dino PC will run like a champion.

This message is coming to you from a year-2000 Toshiba laptop with 117 mb of RAM and an 800 mhz Pentium 3 CPU. Oh, and it has no Hard Drive, by the way. Boots from a floppy, then uses a USB Flash Drive as a make-believe Hard Drive. Total cost = $10.

[Colonel Panic]

[looseSCREWorTWO]

I have put together several working computers (which I define as a PC that can surf the Web and play a DVD movie) from stuff found in skips, laneways and thrown out with the rubbish. There is a disturbing trend where people chuck out a perfectly good PC just because it's last years model. 90 percent of the time when you stick in some RAM the old PC will Boot Up. On the rare occasions where the PC can't be salvaged I strip it for spare parts. With the ones that I get going, I either sell them cheap or else give them away to an Opp Shop/ Thrift Shop /Recycling Centre so they can sell it.

[mechmike]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=P4S8L-P424-NOOS-B

$59 USD, has FireWire and card reader...

[Colonel Panic]

[mechmike]

http://www.recoupit.com/Desktops/IBM/NetVista/IBM-ThinkCentre-S50-8183-p7991266.html

IBM ThinkCentre S50 8183

Review #3 is from a Puppy user who bought two...

[Aitch]

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for that post. A bike trailer would certainly work but it'd be hard going round here (I live on the edge of a moor and it's very hilly here).

"It's such a darn waste of good re-usable hardware.....I wish it was banned/illegal! gggrrr! Laughing "

I actually didn't know that, but that makes me angry too. I don't know if it's true down here in Cornwall.

If you were threatened with physical assault I'd say you had a case for complaint to the council; they absolutely shouldn't be doing that.

My present computer was a gift in 2006 from someone who works for the local education authority, after I'd given some talks for them; it was "surplus to requirements" as apparently no one there wanted a five year old machine (as it was then) for their own use. With only a change of hard drive from 20 GB to a secondhand 30 GB one, It's still going strong 5 years later

I take your point about charity recycled computers but they can still be a bargain compared to new machines. There's a company in Southampton who have some good offers;

http://www.jamies.org.uk/sales.html

[Dave_G]

Recycling old computers is not only fun but saves a heap of cash.
(I'm such a geek and a cheap one at that).

Seriously, if more people re-used old computers just think how many
would be saved from some land fill somewhere.

Unfortunately the current trend is that if a pc is older than 6 months
then it's worthless and nobody wants it.
M$ also contributes to this by releasing it's bloatware that simply won't
run on any hardware except the very latest.

Strange how the authorities all jump on the "green" bandwagon but try
approaching them for a tax refund/credit because you are using a 5 year
old computer for your day to day needs and thus helping the environment
and they look at you as if you have just landed from the planet Zog.

A popular "activity" by some companies (sometimes under the guise of a charity)
is to buy up older computers by the truck load often at very little cost
from big corporates that can no longer depreciate the hardware and the cost
of dumping the computers exceeds their book value ( or have
been conned into upgrading their pc's to run win7) then sell
them off to third world countries then also claim from the
government due to some little known tax incentive for the export of I.T.
related products.

[mechmike]

http://www.recoupit.com/Laptops/HP/Neoware/HP-Neoware-m100-KH188AA-p9765685.html

From the link: