Deals are out there!
A friend of mine was at a garage sale the other day and came across a gem in the rough... so to speak.
Although an older model with an AMD Sempron CPU... it had the good fortune of having the Nvidia Graphics. A good cleaning and the addition of a second 512MB stick of ram and this machine was ready for new life with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04LTS Trusty Tahr. With the use of Nvidia's Graphics driver this is now a fully capable home use PC. For the $10 my friend gave for the computer (which included a 24" Acer monitor, keyboard and wireless mouse) and $5 for a used 512MB stick... he has all the computer he needs for home to deal with e-mail, web browsing, and the occasional movie.
Thanks to the light footprint of the Ubuntu system, XBMC runs smoothly and plays movies full screen without a hitch.
My friend is pleased with the results, and even more pleased that he got it all for a total of only $15....!
The deals are out there if you know what to look for, being in the right place at the right time is the trick.
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