Unless you build your own PC (or get one made from your local PC store), or you want a high-end gaming machine, it’s pretty uncommon to find PC towers on the market. But online retailer Millennius has bucked that trend, launch five new tower PCs, all of them running Ubuntu.
Prices range from $299 for a Celeron powered machine with a 500GB HDD and 2GB RAM, all the way up to $989 for a Sandy Bridge Core i7, 8GB RAM and a 1TB HDD. All five models come in the same tower body – black with blue LEDs – but there’s no room for customisation before handing over the cash.
In a world where laptops are the norm and high end gaming machines really want to be running Windows out of the box, is there a market for this kind of product?
Cameron
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 11:52 AMYou’d need to spend, what, another $150 to $200 at least to get a Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse to go along with that. You can pick up a Compaq or Toshiba Laptop running Windows for the same price (probably with better specs as well). Doesn’t seem like very good value to me……
Virus__
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:00 PMMaybe in the United States that’s feasible. For a prebuilt machine with Sandy bridge i7 & 8GB of DDR3 with a 1TB HDD, yeah won’t happen for under 1500 or a bit more here ;)
It’s just a tower, but you could easily set it up as a remote desktop for file server purposes, a media centre maybe? A box to do your torrenting and other media purposes etc. List is semi-endless.
Virus__
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:11 PMTheir Pentium D computer for 399 is a pretty good deal actually. I was looking at that CPU, Motherboard, Ram & a cheapish graphics card to replace my PC which has currently died for unknown reasons. Those 4 parts were close to something like 400 bucks. So that’s a pretty damn good deal when I look at it.
Deb
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 4:36 PMI definitely want another tower computer. I already have a netbook and a smartphone and just want something to hook up to my tv and be like a media center but with a bit more power too, so yeah I can totally see a market for this kind of computer still . Not as much as before but once people realize what a pain the bum it is to have only a laptop then they will go back to having a tower as well.
Jay
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 9:10 PMInteresting, no info on graphics card. Hoping it’s not integrated.
omfg
Friday, July 1, 2011 at 6:25 PMit’s using intel HD graphics -_-
Mario
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 12:03 AMHmmm.. A friend and I built a a cheap PC to hook up to his 46inch plasma.
Intel i5
4GB DDR3 Ram
Cheapo mainboard with onboard video & sound
Cheap tower with PSU
1GB SATA Hard Drive
Running latest version of Ubuntu
All up $430, parts were bought from PCDIY and MSY.
A market hell yeh if you just want a cheap and fast HTPC.