[conspire] Talk Me out of it Guys

[David E. Fox]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:49:27 -0800 (PST)
bruce coston <jane_ikari at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The pre - black friday stuff is out and a dell inspiron b130 for 500 us ; w 1g ram and 15.4" , wireless, dvd burner free shipping plus printer 1.6 g celeron cpu but I care more for ram . Dell has lousy keyboards despite the reviews I saw saying good


dunno. These days I'd be wanting a box with a bit more oomph - probably
a 64bit AMD cpu. Fry's had (or has) a weekly special for a
(refurbished) HP pavilion AMD64 for about $300. Also Central has some
interesting looking items in the $700 range.

I'm looking at upgrading too BTW (and actually might be able to afford
something on a budget) ... my current machine (AMD Athlon) is >5 years
old. It was mostly put together from components at Central Computer in
Santa Clara, although I added in stuff that I already had. Total cost
was about $600, and the case was probably one of the more expensive
parts, as well as the CPU (retail box Athlon 1Ghz in early 2001: $200).

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