Ryan711

Well I have just a couple of months ago received a lot of decommissioned dell workstations with xp pro from a Lockheed Martin office that was upgrading to new workstations with Vista.

Up until this time I was just considering selling the workstations and taking whatever profit I could get from it, but I am really lazy and I ultimately wanted to start a massive folding farm. So today I was reading a thread on some other forums about how some of the members were creating a total unattended setup/install of a home theater pc.

I immediately connected the difficulty of gathering components and getting them all to work together with the software easily with setting up a carpc. It seems like there is always something that goes wrong, and it is twice as bad if you are sitting in a hot car trying to troubleshoot something.

What I'm ultimately proposing is that the we could choose a specific set of hardware and I would create a custom cd with that installs the OS and installs and configures all of the programs automatically. With a locked down set of hardware and accessories there would be virtually no problems setting up everything. It would basically plug in components, insert the disk, and go have a beer.

Before I started such an endevour I just wanted to gauge everyones interest to see if they would like to see something like this. I would sell the disk with fully licensed version of xp pro for probably around $100-120 since I got them for basically free, though I only have around 250 licenses so after that the price might raise a little.

So what do you guys think? Is this something that would pique your interest or am I just wasting my time?