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over 800 seti units!
Zak T Duck Posted Apr 10, 2003
£750, but that was without a monitor and speakers, so I bought a flat screen monitor and 5.1 surround sound speakers from them for an additional £250. Even doing that it was still over £300 cheaper than the equivalent models from various PC Retailers.
Last week they were running a similar offer. Updated spec of the same machine with a DVD ReWriter 
for about the same price again 
They tend to run these offers twice a year, just before Christmas and Easter. The only trouble is they sell like hot cakes, I had to get there before 6am on the Thursday the offer started just to be guaranteed one. Wonderful machine tho
over 800 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 10, 2003
Just for you information:
Right now "NORMA", one of the big three discount chains here in Germany (ALDI and LIDL are the other two), has a PC on sale (each of them has a "PC-Action" at least twice a year). The specs of the current NORMA machine are as follows:
- Pentium 4, running on 2,66 GHz
- 512 MB Ram (PC266 DDR)
- 160GB harddisk
- Asus 533MHz FSB board
- NVidia GeForce Ti 4800 SE graphics
- DVD-drive 12x/48x
- CD-rewriter 52x/24x/52x
- 10/100 LAN card, DSL-ready
- 56K modem
- XP home edition
- Star office 6.0
- keyboard
- mouse
The price is no more than 999 EUR (that should be some 675 pounds).
Everytime these offers come out I'm severely tempted to convert my current machine into a fileserver/proxy/firewall running on Linux and to have fun with a new PC (that should crunch some 5-6 SETI units per day ...)
Jeremy
over 800 seti units!
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 10, 2003
I think at that price you would have to buy your own monitor, as Croz did.
But it's still 
over 800 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 10, 2003
... and at the very moment that you take it out of the shelf it's old and outdated ...
over 800 seti units!
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 11, 2003
I am still peddling my 4 year-old p.c.
over 100 seti units!
Zak T Duck Posted Apr 13, 2003
Wohoo! I've made my first century about 12 hours ago 
over 100 seti units!
GreyDesk Posted Apr 13, 2003
Yes I noticed. Well done
And I crossed the one year crunching barrier last week sometime 
over 100 seti units!
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 13, 2003
I'm not that far off 1,000 units.
over 100 seti units!
Zak T Duck Posted Apr 13, 2003
Hmm, it'll be a while before I reach that milestone. November maybe 
over 100 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 14, 2003
I have a spreadsheet where I try to keep tracks of some users' SETI results. Just let me have a couple of days and I'll be able to forecast your great day.
AGB: Your's will be in Mid-June
Mine will be on Thursday (propably) which is also my son's first birthday!! YAY!!!
Jeremy
over 100 seti units!
pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Apr 14, 2003
10 to got my next Seti mark 500 units
over 100 seti units!
marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Apr 14, 2003
I am at 2070 now... I wonder if I will be able to get the 2500 certificate before hte project winds down.
over 100 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 16, 2003
Croz,
if you keep on crunching units at your current speed, you'll see the big 1K in the middle of September ...
Jeremy
over 100 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 16, 2003
September, that's right.
App. 5-6 units per day, some 880 to go, makes some 170-180 days from now ==> September ... q.e.d.
Jeremy
over 100 seti units!
Jeremy (trying to find his way back to dinner) Posted Apr 18, 2003
1.000 units done!!!
YAY!!
Drinks are on me ....
Jeremy
over 100 seti units!
GreyDesk Posted Apr 18, 2003
Don't mind if I do
And I notice that Galaxy Babe has drawn level with Jimi
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