Dell Optiplex Pentium 4 2.0GHz 512MB 40GB CD w/Win 2K COA
Dec 13, 2009 in
Computers & Software
- Dell Optiplex GX260 Pentium 4 2.0 GHz Tower System General Features:
- No Operating System (includes Windows 2000 COA) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz processor 512 MB RAM
- 40 GB hard drive CD-ROM drive Floppy drive Integrated video Integrated audio Integrated Ethernet
- Motherboard Expansion slots: One (1) AGP slot Four (4) PCI slots Two (2) DIMM sockets I/O ports:
- One (1) Parallel port
Product Description
DELL GX260 SLIM P4 1.8GHz 20GB 256MB Intel P4 1.8GHz CPU 256MB DDR SDRAM(2 DIMM Slots, 2GB Max.) 20GB Hard Drive CD-ROM 1.44 Floppy Drive 64MB Integrated Video IntegratedSoundBlaster Emulation Audio with Line In/Out/Mic 1 AGP & 1 PCI Half-height Slots 2 PCI Full-height Slots 2 PS/2 Ports 4 USB Ports (2 on the front) 1 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 1 15-pin VGA Port Power Cord WINDOWS 2K PRELOADED WITH NO CD. KEYBOARD AND MOUSE ARE INCLUDED. SYSTEMS ARE GRADE A (RECONDITIONED) WITH MINOR COSMETIC BLEMISHES IN CASE. KEYBOARD WILL VARY IN BRAND,BUT A… More >>
Dell Optiplex Pentium 4 2.0GHz 512MB 40GB CD w/Win 2K COA
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2 comments
Paul Neumyer on December 13, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I love the computer. It works great. Easy to work on, and just great customer satisfaction.
Clamdigger on December 13, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I recently picked up a slightly defective example of one of these old 2.0 GHz Dell’s at a thrift store for ten bucks… just to play with. Windows XP “Home Edition” came with the machine but it hung up on boot, and my subsequent clean install of Windows XP Pro likewise failed… It turned out that there were just too many bad sectors on the nine year old, original Maxtor hard disk for Microsoft’s OS to handle.
Linux worked much, much better. Still using the original thrift store hardware – including the defective 30 gig Maxtor and a paltry 256 meg of DDR RAM that came with my machine – Ubuntu 9.10 loaded perfectly on the first try and ran like a champ, with ports and networking supported automatically by the standard installation. The standard Linux diagnostics then fingered the hard drive as my source of trouble… while giving my RAM and other Optiplex components a clean bill of health.
Bottom line: This is a fine machine to run Linux on, including the very latest versions like Ubuntu 9.10. Now, after replacing the old machine’s hard disk with a new but modest 160 gig drive AND bumping the original RAM up to 2 gig – both very inexpensive upgrades these days – I am still under a hundred bucks… And the performance I’m seeing is *at least* comparable to the Windows XP Pro, multi-core Dells I support at work – despite the fact that they are 7-8 years newer, have 4 gig of faster RAM and have a lot of other improvements over the Dells of the Pentium 4 era!
Give an old, cheap Dell a new life on Linux! You will be amazed.