Sorry had to do that....

Dimension E521 Qty 1
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+, Genuine Windows® XP Professional with re-installation CD Unit Price

Base AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Professional with re-installation CD
Memory 512MB Single Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz - 1DIMM
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
Monitor 19 inch Ultrasharp™ 1907FP Digital Flat Panel
Video Card 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro
Hard Drive 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Mouse included in Wireless, Laser or Bluetooth Package
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
CD ROM/DVD ROM 16x DVD+/-RW Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) No productivity suite- Includes Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Security Software No Security Subscription
Warranty and Service 1Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service
Internet Access Service 6 Months of EarthLink Internet Access Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Future Operating Systems Windows Vista™ Capable

TOTAL:$838.00

Being built now, should get it next week sometime.....

Now if best buy wouldn;t have taken that gateway laptop for $499 off special then I'd be getting a laptop too.... well off to look for a similar laptop for simialr or cheaper price than Best Buy had last weekend.

 

Just make sure you don't get busted with a stash of weed like the "Dell Dude" did.....

 

Cool. I bought a refurbished D610 Latitude for work, runs like a champ thus far...it's surprising how fast a computer really can be when you don't have tons and tons of junk on it...

 

Although wouldn't mind is there was a stash hidden in the box when it got here.........

Sell it on the street and pay for the system!




The only thing I really went cheap on, (besdies getting the cheapest available system) was the memory..... with only 1/2 gb. But I have 2, 1GB sticks here already... who needs a warranty?????

I've gote the answer for that too..... When my old system died, I bought an external hard drive case and put the Hard drive in it.... the case I bought is networked via 10/100 on my router and mounted on the system as an onboard Hard drive.... so everything is stored on it, since it doesnt have an OS..... spyware and other's will be lost.......

 

Actually this Hard Drive case here....

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=256439

 

Awesome Matt. I love mine, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to HP after using a Dell!

 

If you can wait, there are usually some good laptop deals the day after Thanksgiving. Of course, you might have to wait in line overnight.

 

You'll be throwing another 512 of RAM in right quick.

Can you believe how much computing power we get nowadays for <900

Congrats

 

I hope I am not saying the same thing in the future. I bought a pretty powerful HP setup from Sam's Club last December. So far, I really like it. It is my home machine, I have a Dell at work.

 

The only problem I have with HP systems are the laptops and their power supplies....very flaky in my experience.

 

Show off.

I'll be getting mine towards the end of November.

 

I'm holding out for a 4 or 6 core ULV laptop... hopefully a Mac, but I doubt it as they are always 1-3 years behind everyone else.

 

Power supply is good on this zt1130 that I'm using for now tell my dell gets here.... The power supply is loud, but good.... my complaint with it is the battery, I can't get it to find it....... dosent matter anyway becasuse the screen is black so has to have an extranal monitor.... basically is now a slim line desktop.....

Already in the plans the minute I put the order in. Thier memory was just to expensive......

Yea the first shelf system I bought was about 8-9 years ago, Compaq Presario, 64 mb of ram, 4 GB hard drive, 32 mb shared video, I can't remember the processor speed, very small though in comparison to todays computers. That plus 15" monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer.... $1500

Cost twice as much for 1/4 the power but it's still running with all the original parts, my daughter is using it actually.

Not to mention twice the cost..... I looked at mac laptop first.... I can get this system plus a PC latop, for 1/2 the cost of a one base model mac laptop......





Just got a call with a tracking number, system will arrive tomarrow or friday!!!

 

sounds like you got a pretty good deal. I am thinking about getting a new alienware laptop.

 

Looked at them too.....

Want one, I love the way they look. I've never had one or known anybody who has to play with one, but I hear from the net that they are awesome machines.