Dell Desktops from £129.99 - Quick!! [CLOSED]

sarahmoo

ordered through DABS...put details in. Checked order and now saying out of stock? Shall I cancel order and use BT instead?

littlemissfrugal

can i ask a daft question - how can i find out what my PC has got i.e how much RAM and what processor exactly as mine was cobbled together a few years back and i am about due for something better - but would like to know what the comparison is.

xxMandyxx

does the 5100 write cds as well as dvds?

bergy2

Hi

Simplest way i know is go to run button

type dxdiag and enter

it will tell you on the front page your PC specs

rogerramjet

xxMandyxx wrote:

does the 5100 write cds as well as dvds?

DVD writer will work as a CD writer as well

littlemissfrugal

Thanks for that Bergy2 i now know that i have XP professional (no disc)
Intel Pentium 4 1.80GHz and 256MB RAM - next daft question how does this compare to these machines? Can you tell i'm clueless?

Searcher2

littlemissfrugal wrote:

Thanks for that Bergy2 i now know that i have XP professional (no disc)
Intel Pentium 4 1.80GHz and 256MB RAM - next daft question how does this compare to these machines? Can you tell i'm clueless?

You could probably do with upgrading your RAM to at least 512Mb...but if you don't play games or do any heavy graphic work would you really want to upgrade? I have a 5 year old Inspiron 8000 laptop with a P3 900Mhz CPU and really it's still a very workable machine for what I do on it.

I think you need to ask yourself what you would like to do with your PC that you can't now.

Searcher2

sarahmoo wrote:

ordered through DABS...put details in. Checked order and now saying out of stock? Shall I cancel order and use BT instead?

Mmm. Difficult one. It says stock is due in... so I would think you are okay. I saw it out of stock early last week and a couple of days later they did have stock. I would think the stock is coming from the same place as the BT site (as mentioned think BT bought Dabs) so possibly no difference. I still reckon it is bankrupt stock from somewhere which has never been unboxed.

littlemissfrugal

We mainly use it for family stuff - hubbys work, he uses powerpoint alot, internet, photos etc eldest daughter (17) uses it for homework, chat, downloads lots of stuff and plays some games (mainly Sims) the main reason i would like another PC is because we have to share which at times is a nightmare my idea being that DD could have the existing PC and me and hubby could have new one - but then thinking about it i don't know how we would transfer stuff from one to the other and how to go about with rejigging the internet stuff either - hopeless

Searcher2

littlemissfrugal wrote:

We mainly use it for family stuff - hubbys work, he uses powerpoint alot, internet, photos etc eldest daughter (17) uses it for homework, chat, downloads lots of stuff and plays some games (mainly Sims) the main reason i would like another PC is because we have to share which at times is a nightmare my idea being that DD could have the existing PC and me and hubby could have new one - but then thinking about it i don't know how we would transfer stuff from one to the other and how to go about with rejigging the internet stuff either - hopeless

Well.... I doubt you will get a better deal than this for a while if you want another PC. You will need a screen though. The 5100 is a very expandable machine (though I am convinced you will get a 5150 as I did). The extra memory will help with photo editing and powerpoint. The extra processing the 3.0 or 3.4GHz will help with games. You can transfer from one to another easily enough - at worst by using the memory card from hubby's camera memory card... but more easily by DVD. They are solidly built, quite sexy, very quiet machines (I know this from having bought the cheap Pavillion from Dabs and am currently returning it - the hard disk noisewould drive me to distraction)... and I find the Dell website very useful for support and thier user Forum if you want to know anything or update your machine.