TESCO 3GHz Athlon PC AND phillips 17" TFT monitor

bleugh

just saw this in local tescos
excellent deal

£580 for a 3 gig, 80 gig 512 meg pc with 172 philips TFT and two years warranty
AND a FREE HP PRINTER

its a great starter system for those who dont want the hassle of building their own

krakan

Guys, how many times???!?

Buying these things is *only* good if you don't want the 'hassle' of building your own, but they are very much *NOT* good value!

Case in point - I'll build anyone an identical spec system and deliver it to them by hand for this price! If you really can't build your own, why would you be wanting a 3GHz PC? If you don't know how one even goes together, let alone works, what on earth would make you buy one this fast?? This is money SAVING, not Money Wasting..

Ice_coffee

I must admit !! at this price Dell have some good deals going on !!!

wolfytom

Krakan - you're starting to bore me now.

People want to buy computers that are high spec and ready to go and carry a reassuringly recognisable brandname

They want to buy them as high spec as possible so that they last longer.

They want them from big, recognisable names that carry with them a certain reassurance that Krakan Computers seems to be missing!

They want a national phone number when things go wrong - not a friend of a friend who thinks he knows what the problem is but "be prepared to buy a new hard drive"!!

Don't be ridiculous about not needing the speed if you can't build one yourself - that's simply idiotic! They want them to run the latest games or handle DV or multi-task lots of different progs all at the same time - what else would you need the speed for?
What specialist use are YOU going to make of 3 ghz that they are not?

Don t be so bloody patronising! ::)

georgesky01

;D

biglugs

Tesco website appears to be down so can't check what they do online.
I didn't realise Athlon made 3GHz processors, but I'm sure this is a reasonable spec machine. You can argue whether £580 is a bargain compared to building your own or not, but many people either don't want to or aren't computer literate enough to be able to build their own machine.
I built my first one last year and it's quite a scary proposition to go out and buy £600 worth of bits and then pray that they work when you put them together.
Presumably Kraken has a crystal radio which he built himself, rather than a shop bought one with a warranty?

JPS

Krakan - you're starting to bore me now.

People want to buy computers that are high spec and ready to go and carry a reassuringly recognisable brandname

They want to buy them as high spec as possible so that they last longer.

They want them from big, recognisable names that carry with them a certain reassurance that Krakan Computers seems to be missing!

They want a national phone number when things go wrong - not a friend of a friend who thinks he knows what the problem is but "be prepared to buy a new hard drive"!!

Don't be ridiculous about not needing the speed if you can't build one yourself - that's simply idiotic! They want them to run the latest games or handle DV or multi-task lots of different progs all at the same time - what else would you need the speed for?
What specialist use are YOU going to make of 3 ghz that they are not?

Don t be so bloody patronising! ::)

That's a good point wolfytom - not everyone can build their own computers, and the people that can't want to be able to walk into a shop and buy a good system at a decent price with good after sales service.

I built my PC myself because I have the knowledge to do so (one of the few advantages of being a 17 year old A level ICT student ) but I can see this is just not a possibility for many people - especially the more older generations.

And ye Krakan I have never heard such nonsense as what you said....why on earth do you need to know how a computer works in order to make full use of it?! What you are saying is so silly! If someone doesn't know how a car works but has a driving license, and is given a really nice fast car to drive, should they not be allowed to go as fast as they want because they don't know how it "goes together"?!

Tabasco

Yeah, for £600, you buy the comfort of knowing that it will work or it can go right back to Tesco the very next second.  And if anything goes wrong during warranty, someone 'could' fix it for you or you get a replacement.  More importantly, you don't have to buy many components and bear the risk of keep replacing the HDD when it's the MB that you have actually blown.

I am quite sure I can build one myself but I rather have it ready built and for use.

BTW I have seem the box in Tesco a few weeks ago and I think it's Philips or similar brand.  I was tempted but my good old desktop (server) is still running and performs what I need it to so didn't buy one.

Just hope Tesco do laptop next.  I am dying for a replacement and Aldi's one is sold out already.  :(

Added: ops, just realised the thread starter actually mentioned Philips.

Pink.

Thanks for pointing this one out bleugh.

Our five year old computer is outdated and on it's last legs and we need a new one.   Despite my initial resistance to buying a pc in the first place (I really find it hard to get to grips with tecnology), it has become an essential part of my family's life.  

We need a replacement, but none of us have the experience or know how to build one ourselves, and to be honest neither do any of us have the inclination to learn.  

Krakan, I resent your implication that this makes us too stupid to know how to operate a higher spec pc.

Thanks again bleugh, going to take a look at this.

Pink

bleugh

Guys, how many times???!?

Buying these things is *only* good if you don't want the 'hassle' of building your own, but they are very much *NOT* good value!

Case in point - I'll build anyone an identical spec system and deliver it to them by hand for this price! If you really can't build your own, why would you be wanting a 3GHz PC? If you don't know how one even goes together, let alone works, what on earth would make you buy one this fast?? This is money SAVING, not Money Wasting..

for fricks sake

did i mention the free HP printer that comes with it

Please, I challenge you to 'build' acompletley legal 3gig machine at that price, and provie proof you can provide 3 years of warranty!

i used to build PC's for a living, and helped out at a small village shop,

at this price there are very few margins, fair enough, dell have great offers on, but where can you buy a 17" 1280x1024 phillips LCD for the right side of £200 nowadays,
that leaves £380 for the PC and components, which, without knowing exactly whats used, you can use crappy parts and get the hardware for around £200, 250, then a LEGAL copy of win xp costs around £100 nowadays!
oh, then the free printer.

what you dont understand is that people confused by TV remotes have have some chance of building their own PC, but NO CHANCE of recovering when something goes wrong.

you buy a tesco PC, that little extra you pay over buying your own parts gives you piece of mind and someone who will be on the other end of the phone should something go wrong

PS GUYS THE PC I SAW WAS IN A LARGE TESCO ON SPYTTY ROAD IN NEWPORT

TeamMCS

Time and time again the same thing comes up, some guy who 'knows' how to build a pc starts telling other people how to spend their money...

I've built zillions of machines, I think its a great way for an experienced user to go about the pc world.


HOWEVER, I wouldn't recommed that an "average joe" buy a home built machine. I dont care what some of these people say, at a certain price point Dell, PC World, Time etc etc can all undercut custom builders due to one thing. Mass production, each component I buy has its own profit margine when you add together each part it starts to mount up....

Dell can afford to take a loss on say, a Hard-Disk. Infact they can afford to only make a marginal profit as they sell so many of the machines. When you add the cost of "home support" (for a custom machine) pre-built machines really do start to lose their edge.

So the bottom line is this, if you are prepared to learn how to fix and build a computer then customized machine may be the way forward.

If you have NO experience then the peice of mind a "brand" gives you cannot be beaten. In the end it is not worth risking, we all like to have a moan at some guy on the telephone - But if its your son, remember you've gotta live with him