Dell Desktop Great Deal

[Ron]

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Get an Inspirion 1420 and get it with Ubuntu installed. $499 with no coupons and it simply works.

How does Unbunto work?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by pelathais

My birthday's coming up, and you remembered?

lol....actually I wanted it to replace my aging laptop. It's a Sony Vaio 900mhz AMD, less than a gig ram and only 20gigs HD. The battery won't charge and even when it did it barely lasted an hour...its just a glorified DVD player now I take to dialysis every now and then

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by TRFrance

Thats a good deal. I have a Dell also that I bought refurbished from the Dell Outlet. Faantastic dea.

Desktop/ Tower... 80 gig HD + Microsoft Office + 1 CD Rom drive. + 1 CDRW burner. + 80 GB HD for about $430 . Normal retail value would have been about double that. This was about 3 or 4 years ago, but they still have pretty good deals today. If you're ok with getting a refurbished item (mine came with a 1 year warranty), you might want to check them out at www.dell.com/outlet.

Personally, when it comes to desktops Id rather build my own. There is little difference usually between manufacturers of desktops anymore other than support. Find out what is inside before buying. Who made the MB. Who made the ram. Who made the video card if it has one. Does it have a sound card or is it built in?

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Personally, when it comes to desktops Id rather build my own. There is little difference usually between manufacturers of desktops anymore other than support. Find out what is inside before buying. Who made the MB. Who made the ram. Who made the video card if it has one. Does it have a sound card or is it built in?

The one I just bought I had configured with a 256mb NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT video card. Of course I don't know who the actual card mfg. is. I do, however, know the specs of that card and it has tow DVI connectors for digital monitors and supports dual monitors. The card is designed for High Def video, has open GL, etc.

I plan on using this sys for video editing as I am getting a Canon H20 High Definition (HDV) camcorder to replace the DV camcorder I lost in the Loch in Scotland. High Def video takes a lot of computing power and storage to handle so I really needed this new system.

I think if someone built my system they could beat the regular $1000 price but I don't think you could do it as configured for any better than the $650 I paid. You could if you did your oddball operating system but for us NORMAL folks who want Windows......LOL!!!

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by Ron

How does Unbunto work?

www.ubuntu.com

CC1> I have a GeForce card in my box. It is fantastic. I run a 20 inch monitor and no lag at all. It frees up my 512 Meg RAM for the system.

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by CC1

If anyone is in the market for a new desktop computer there is a promo code out there for $350 off Dell Inspiron Desktops that you configure at the Dell site with a regular price of $999 or more.

When you are configuring at the Dell site you will see your price with probably a $100-$150 discount. As you configure your system and see the price change with each component remember to add back that discount you have been given to see when you reach the $999 threshold to then apply the $350 discount promo code.

This promo code is good until 1/8 or until 6,000 people have found it on the internet and used it (it is not on the Dell site or advedrtised).

Tonight I bought a $1000+ compuer for about $650.00. They also have free shipping right now.

Here is the promo code you would enter at the checkout page and then it would recalculate the price of your computer showing the $350.00 discount being taken off the price;

DT6M$B97BDKSVB

I need one. Think this is a better deal than buying a $599. Acer or e-Machine desktop from Walmart?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

I need one. Think this is a better deal than buying a $599. Acer or e-Machine desktop from Walmart?

Do you remember the Yugo?

Think about a crash. Do you see the 18 yr old temp from Walmart helping you in 11 months if you have a problem?

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

Do you remember the Yugo?

Think about a crash. Do you see the 18 yr old temp from Walmart helping you in 11 months if you have a problem?

Dell fills that gap?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Dell fills that gap?

Better than a box that is at least 4-5 months old when you buy it.

Dell started by custom building white boxes and still semi-build to order. There are those who hate them, but I have NO complaints and mine is almost 7 yrs old now.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

I need one. Think this is a better deal than buying a $599. Acer or e-Machine desktop from Walmart?

Dell actually has some preconfingured systems at Sams Club and Wal Mart right now (also Staples and soon to be Best Buy).

They are good general systems and most have nice 17", 19" or even bigger LCD monitors bundled with them.

However I don't think most or any of those had firewire and they all had just an integrated graphics card. Plenty of hard drive, RAM, and a CD/DVD burner though. For 95% of people those systems are great and sell between $589 and $899.

I wanted a system specifically for editing High Definition video which needs a lot of "ooomph" in processing power, RAM, and graphics card capability.

For that reason the $350 off promo code worked better for me as I was able to forego a monitor, speakers, etc that comes with the store packaged and instead get a more powerful processor, lots of RAM, and a dedicated 256mb graphics card with support for dual monitors (digital DVI at that!). What I got for $650 is truly amazing.

If I had been buying a computer for just general use like internet surfing, digital photos, word processing, etc then one of the bundled packages at a store would have been fine.

Bored is correct about Wal Mart employees not being any help if anything goes wrong but even with service going down some in recent years Dell is still one of the best at customer support so if you bought a Dell at Wal Mart you wouldn't have to deal with them locally.

I will tell you it paid off for me buying my Toshiba laptop last spring at a Best Buy that has the ""Geek Squad" desk on site. I wanted to put more RAM in and the cover to the RAM would not unscrew. I took it to two little computer shops. One guy tried and couldn't open it and the other wanted fifty bucks just to try. I took it back to Best Buy and the guy at the Geek Squad desk had it open in a couple of minutes with no paperwork, no charge! I had bought it at Wal Mart I would have been out of luck and would have either been out fifty bucks or would have broken it trying to open it.

The next few months will be a good time to buy as the new Quad processors become the new big thing and prices will drop on what has been the top end most powerful dual core processors.