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Non 
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I am going off to college this fall and I am going to buy a computer; the problem is, I have limited funds.
I am thinking something like a 1.3 Ghz, 128megs SDRAM, 20 gig HD, CDRW drive, 17" monitor. Since I only have like $800 to spend I don't think I can get a DVD drive or a Video Card with TV out  . If you guys have any suggestions on where to buy it or what specs I should be focused on I would really appreciate it.
I intend to use it mainly for making CD's and I was thinking of hooking it up to my amp and use it as a Stereo. I would like to be able to plays DVD's and hook it up to my TV, but that prolly won't happen. It will be hooked up to a T1.
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Interesting, I would think this would be in the Geek Forum...
I read yesterday that the prices of chips was dropping so in about a month,..... go for it.
I was pleasantly surprised with XP when I found out I can burn disks with one mouse click instead of 5-8 and dragNdrop.
Standalone DVDRWs are running 450$ right now so that isn't going to happen...
I would be very interested in ghosting the HDD with a second one; you know you won't regret it later....
Check and see about USB 2.0 for your puter too!
My experience in LA is that Dell and Gateway have good service and eMachine offers quite a bit for the money, but I don't know about the service compared to the other two.
Local to LA is www.outpost.com and they have good deals and I think they ship outside of LA.
Sorry I'm too lazy right now to do the link for you.
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| Quote (Non @ 01 June 2002,00:13) | I am going off to college this fall and I am going to buy a computer; the problem is, I have limited funds.
I am thinking something like a 1.3 Ghz, 128megs SDRAM, 20 gig HD, CDRW drive, 17" monitor. Since I only have like $800 bucks to spend I don't think I can get a DVD drive or a Video Card with TV out . If you guys have any suggestions on where to buy it or what specs I should be focused on I would really appreciate it.
I intend to use it mainly for making CD's and I was thinking of hooking it up to my amp and use it as a Stereo. I would like to be able to plays DVD's and hook it up to my TV, but that prolly won't happen. It will be hooked up to a T1. |
| Quote (NeoComputers @ neocomputersdotcom) |
SYSTEM PRICE $759.19
AMD DURON PROCESSORS AMD ATHLON 1.3GHZ 266MHZ PROCESSOR $80.50
CPU FANS COOLER MASTER DP5-6131A CPU FAN $9.50
SOCKET A MOTHERBOARDS FIC AD11XP DDR SOCKET A MOTHERBOARD $70.15
DDR MEMORY 128MB PC2100 DDR MEMORY $22.80
IDE HARD DRIVES MAXTOR 20GB ULTRA 100 HARD DRIVE $72.25
CD-RW DRIVE LITE-ON 32X12X40 CD-RW DRIVE $84.00
AGP CARDS ATI EXPERT 2000 32MB VIDEO CARD $39.00
SOUND CARD 32 BIT SOUND CARD PCI $14.00
NETWORK CARD EDIMAX 10/100 ETHERNET ADAPTER PCI $14.00
FLOPPY DRIVES 1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE $14.00
MID TOWER CASES EVERCASE MIDTOWER CASE 250W ATX $49.00
KEYBOARDS CHICONY INTERNET KEYBOARD PS2 $11.00
MICE MITSUMI 2 BUTTON SCROLL MOUSE $7.00
OPERATING SYSTEMS MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION OEM $99.00
SPEAKERS MIDILAND MLI452 6 PIECE SURROUND SYSTEM $34.00
MONITOR NEO D1770 17" MONITOR $138.99 |
::edit::editor's is cheaper, but this has more good stuff and less crap(56k modem, integrated video et cetera)
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Non
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Editor's is more what I am looking for.
"EMachines T1600 AMD Athlon™ 1.4GHz/40GB/256MB/CDRW/56K/NIC/XP"
Price: $ 624.99
After Rebate: $ 549.99
I like the 256MB PC2100 RAM and it has XP. It's got a nice sized HDD too. Most importantly even with a good monitor I can still aford it. 
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DON'T BUY AN HP!
Seriously, mine crashes daily. Get a Dell, or beter yet, an alienware! That is, if you have that kind of cash.
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| Quote (Bozeman @ 31 May 2002,23:08) | | Get a Dell, or beter yet, an alienware! That is, if you have that kind of cash. |
MY ALIENWARE COMPUTER ARRIVED ON MY DOORSTEP YESTERDAY! I'M USING IT RIGHT NOW! 19" MONITOR! GForce3with64cashe! SoundBlasterAudigy! 1.8GHz! I'M HAPPY! 
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DONT GET WINDOWS XP!!! Get a dell or something... i wouldent get a gateway because they usally crash more often and i think they collect more dust for some reasion... windows XP is its own platform insted of DOS and since its like the first microsoft OS without dos there are a lot of bugs and it is not compatable with most things. I perfer Windows 98 second edition... winMe and 2000 are also ok... get like at least a 15 gig hard drive and 128 ram... i dont see too much diffrence of the memory over 300... a pentium 3 and 4 are mostly the same... i would get a 17 inch moniter. But if you go and do the custimize desktop thing on the dell4me.com place they only like allow you to get windows XP and the newist stuph... and dont get one of those congo things where they have like extremely cheap computers and if theres something wrong with it they replace it with an old one and you dont have any stuff on it at all... and their "upgrades" are a new computer that someone brought in and they formatted it and installed a new version of windows or something...
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kuru
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XP isn't the 'first Microsoft OS without DOS'.
Windows NT never did run on top of DOS, it existed completely without it. It does, however, have a DOS emulator to do certain DOS-type operations, which some people confuse for it actually having DOS.
But shit, get your facts straight.
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Posted on: Jun. 01 2002,19:08 |
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In XP, goto windows start/run
enter "command" without quotes
and you're in the DOS emulator.
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