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1.4 GHz AMD system with lots of goodies
I collected a 1.4 GHz AMD Duron beige tower system today for free!
I know, not a Mac...but whatever.
The fun thing is that its got removable/hot swappable drive bays.
But that's not all...I also got a Sharp 15" LCD monitor, some RAM, a wireless card, a laptop wireless card, a modem card, a lot of mounting screws, and some thermal paste.
The machine came with 4 hard drives (2x40GB, 1x80GB and 1x160GB).
I think this is my best free conquest so far (apart from the NeXTstation I got for free from a good friend). [
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I installed XP on it this morning, and it runs faster than I expected. Now the question is what to use it for...
I know, not a Mac...but whatever.
The fun thing is that its got removable/hot swappable drive bays.But that's not all...I also got a Sharp 15" LCD monitor, some RAM, a wireless card, a laptop wireless card, a modem card, a lot of mounting screws, and some thermal paste.
The machine came with 4 hard drives (2x40GB, 1x80GB and 1x160GB).
I think this is my best free conquest so far (apart from the NeXTstation I got for free from a good friend). [
] ]'>I installed XP on it this morning, and it runs faster than I expected. Now the question is what to use it for...
The Athlon is a much better processor - the Duron is equivalent to Intel's Celeron processor.
Unless you use a patched kernel, like Voodoo XNU - it allows you to run OS X on non-SSE2 machines. But even so, the motherboard in this machine is incompatible and would cause a lot of problems with OS X.