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dragmor wrote:Shuttle has some good cheap AMD systems. The Shuttle SN68SG2 while not the that pretty, is cheap and solid and less than $200, another $150 should get you everything else.
Alternatively buy her a 10" netbook, a USB keyboard and mouse and video out to her current monitor and leave it closed most of the time. But you would still need to spend money on an external DVD.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:dragmor wrote:Alternatively buy her a 10" netbook, a USB keyboard and mouse and video out to her current monitor and leave it closed most of the time. But you would still need to spend money on an external DVD.
Seen one with DVI output?
reynolm wrote:Well, the smaller the better, but the traditional shuttle "cube" would be fine (wide enough for a horizontal 5.25" external bay, and not much taller).Maybe? *l* What are the dimensions of your ideal toaster?
FroBozz_Inc wrote:Yeah, I'm sure it does.I just wanted chime in to say that the 690G chipset is prolly more then enough for what you describe.
drsauced wrote:Yeah, the EEE did cross my mind. Lot of points in its favor, including DVI out and the card reader. I wish it had more USB ports,though. It only has two on the back, and since it doesn't have PS/2 ports that would be your mouse and keyboard. Except she also has a printer and a scanner. So I guess I could run one cable to her monitor (which has a USB hub) and run the keyboard and mouse from that, and then get another hub for the printer and scanner. Plus the USB CD-ROM i'd also have to buy. Not a deal killer, and at half the price of the Dell Studio you can't complain too much. Though I wonder how easy it is to get inside and upgrade the guts? 1GB RAM isn't much for Windows, even XP, and I doubt that 80GB drive is all that speedy either.EEE Box +1. We've got one hooked up to our touchscreen thing, and it works great! It doesn't have the CDROM reader, but yeah, those are not an endangered species by any means. It's small, quiet, and very sexy. It also comes with built-in card readers, too, so it should work with digicams, depending on the memory cards, of course.
UberGerbil wrote:Yeah, the EEE did cross my mind. Lot of points in its favor, including DVI out and the card reader. I wish it had more USB ports,though. It only has two on the back, and since it doesn't have PS/2 ports that would be your mouse and keyboard. Except she also has a printer and a scanner. So I guess I could run one cable to her monitor (which has a USB hub) and run the keyboard and mouse from that, and then get another hub for the printer and scanner. Plus the USB CD-ROM i'd also have to buy. Not a deal killer, and at half the price of the Dell Studio you can't complain too much. Though I wonder how easy it is to get inside and upgrade the guts? 1GB RAM isn't much for Windows, even XP, and I doubt that 80GB drive is all that speedy either.
JonMCC33 wrote:I think you're right. Shopping their refurbished page, I can get a 2.1GHz (T8100) w/3GB of RAM and Vista Home Premium for $459. I can't build a comparable mATX system -- AMD or Intel -- for less than that.I think the Dell Studio Hybrid would be a far better deal. It's significantly more powerful than the Asus Eee Box and it also includes a DVD burner. Plus you have Windows Vista over Windows XP.
xtalentx wrote:Most inexpensive laptops don't have DVI out.I would buy her and inexpensive laptop personally. Maybe an Eee but I can't bring myself to endorse those yet
JustAnEngineer wrote:So what? It's perfectly adequate for this purpose.That new shuttle has an anemic Atom processor.