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samZ0rp

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 122

new pc buisness

my shop teacher is bringing in pcs the school cant use (there pretty good windows 7 sata x4 p4ht and some sata disks (hdd dvd)0)
ive been activating windows and adding some ram in the shop down time and selling them for 10 bucks to teachers and students ive made over 50 bucks doing barley anything

hell the teacher even says he will give me marks for building them (i modify the chaise so the hdd fits in the fdd cleanly (sawing the plastic cover so the hdd wont push on it)

of course i got one free and i took the best one which was a quad core with 4 gb of ram and i put two 80gb 7200 rpm drives

so i can potentialy sell 200 of them (2000 $ for not being bored at lunch) 

of course im putting cb on mine but windows for the ones i sell.

Last edited by samZ0rp (2014-11-03 20:37:32)

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CSCoder4ever

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Registered: 2013-09-03

Posts: 2,256

Re: new pc buisness

Congrats on your new job!

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: new pc buisness

Nice one sam

Why not partition them, and supply a dual boot, so people can have the chance of trying out a non-win distro?

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th3pun15h3r

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 571

Re: new pc buisness

Nice!  I am about to go get like 3 laptops and some desktops from a IT friend who does work for IT businesses.  Hopefully have a descent laptop to use instead of my chromebook I croutoned with elementary OS luna (which my 1 year old son opened and wiped...thanks developer mode...>:( ) now Ubuntu 14.04.

chillicampari

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Registered: 2009-10-09

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Re: new pc buisness

(edit- PM sent from Sector11 regarding legality of key transfer).

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#!_828

#! Tinfoil Hat

From: Ohio, U. S. of A.

Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 1,244

Re: new pc buisness

Why not partition them, and supply a dual boot, so people can have the chance of trying out a non-win distro?

I second that! You could kick off the next generation of PCjacking  ]:D

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asl

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-10-01

Posts: 20

Re: new pc buisness

Why not partition them, and supply a dual boot, so people can have the chance of trying out a non-win distro?

+1, yes that'd be great. Part of the difficulty in spreading linux (imho) is the public's perceived lack of options

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samZ0rp

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 122

Re: new pc buisness

i could send a boot disk with them (ubuntu or mint due to the fact the people im selling to are new to it)

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TicTac

#! Junkie

From: Wherever You Go, There You Are

Registered: 2014-10-23

Posts: 256

Re: new pc buisness

i could send a boot disk with them (ubuntu or mint due to the fact the people im selling to are new to it)

Or a copy of Puppy, that'd screw them up for the rest of their lives. ]:D

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th3pun15h3r

#! Die Hard

Registered: 2011-11-22

Posts: 571

Re: new pc buisness

Nice one sam

Why not partition them, and supply a dual boot, so people can have the chance of trying out a non-win distro?

If your looking to do that id put zorin os 9 core or for really old machines zorin os 9 lite.

samZ0rp

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 122

Re: new pc buisness

they are actually all the same model except for the net support (used to control pcs by teacher) which is faster
they run Xubuntu well and Ubuntu would work decently to

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samZ0rp

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 122

Re: new pc buisness

the codes are referbishers codes sorry

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samZ0rp

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-12-18

Posts: 122

Re: new pc buisness

so far I've made about 200 bucks
also I've gave some away to poorer families (in the town)

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#! Tinfoil Hat

From: Ohio, U. S. of A.

Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 1,244

Re: new pc buisness

Sounds like you're doing better than I did when I tried something like that. I tried the PC repair in my basement for a bit, but almost all of my business was family member who always got pissed at me when I gave them a bill. I wound up putting so much in & making almost nothing (because nobody wanted to pay) that I eventually just gave up 

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#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 638

Re: new pc buisness

@ Tinfoil Hat
You need to get a new family - what a bunch of scrooges 
I would have the opposite problem with my family.

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#! Tinfoil Hat

From: Ohio, U. S. of A.

Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 1,244

Re: new pc buisness

^ Tell me about it. For the most part, my family is a pretty tight-knit bunch, except when it comes to money, then they'll rip each other's throats out. I guess it's just an Italian thing 

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