Re: Uh-Oh, look out Phil, it's a B.. B.. Bargain!

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Nice one Paul!!!

Just ordered one on-line. Here's the URL...
http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/details.php?cartid=0112281047561445308&modu
leno=30842&manufacturer=ECS

M.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:19 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Uh-Oh, look out Phil, it's a B.. B.. Bargain!


> Chaps,
>
> Went out and braved the new year sales yesterday (fool that I am!)
>
> Ended up (purely because of traffic congestion) in M**lins, where I
ended
up
> purchasing a "book PC kit", which I have to say I'm really
rather
impressed
> with! - currently in the catalogue at £249, but recently reduced to
£199,
> (and you can get a £10 voucher from inside the catalogue...)
>
> for which you get:
>
> a seriously nice-looking ultra small PC unit, in shiny silver &
pale blue,
> containing:
> an Intel 810 based motherboard,
> a DVD-ROM drive,
> a floppy drive,
> built-in 10/100 ethernet port
> built-in V90 modem port
> PS2 mouse & keyboad ports
> built-in VGA, with both composite and S-Video outputs
> built-in Soundblaster 5.1 soundcard, with outputs for
front/rear/centre &
> sub (with Dolby digital 5.1 decoding)
> 1 serial & 1 parallel port
> 2 USB ports on the back, and 2 more on the front (behind a flap)
> There's also an area on the front of the case that looks intriguingly
like
> an IR window, but I don't know yet if theres IRDA hardware behind
it...
> Also in the box is a wheel mouse, a matching multimedia keyboad, a
rather
> nasty-looking pair of speakers, a CPU fan, manuals & a CDROM with
drivers
&
> a copy of Win-DVD, and a plastic stand for the base unit.
>
> All I have to add is a socket 370 CPU (the manual says it will take
either
a
> PPGA or a FC-PGA variety), a hard disk, and some RAM (all of which I
just
> happen to have "spare") and Bob's yer proverbial
aunties-live-in-lover.
>
> So, for less than the cost of a Playstation 2 I've got a fully-loaded
> multimedia box, that plays DVD's with dolby digital surround, plays
music,
> plays games, connects to a 100MB LAN, can access my broadband
connection,
> and anything else you can think of!
>
> Going out again today - Tottenham Court road & Oxford street this
time...
> :-)
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
>
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