Buying new desktop - Advice please

Its_Mart

Hey Saving Experts,

I'm looking at replacing my old laptop with a desktop.
I've been looking around and found this; www.ebuyer.com/product/176488

The lack of a operating system is no bother as I've got one anyway to install and I'm probably going to buy Packard Bell Viseo 190W screen.

Main question, Are Zoostorm PC's reputable?
The cheap price and over generous specification makes me wonder towards the answer, no.
Those sayings like, "You get what you pay for..." "To good to be true..." are starting to make myself consider not buying it.

I'd love the answer to be "YES! Go ahead and buy it now, 5/5", but with a little doubt in my mind I don't want to spend £300+ to later find it is rubbish.

So if it isn't worthwhile buying, can anybody recommend a decent spec desktop for absolute max of £350.

Thanks for reading.
Mart

BillScarab

Zoostorm are OK.

The spec isn't that generous anyway. It has a Pentium Dual Core which are fien but not the latest processors. 4GB of RAM is becoming standard and a 500GB disc is also fairly average. It also doesn't have gigabit ethernet.

It's a decent machine for the money and I'd be happy to buy one. if you look at the reviews, there are 43 of them and it averages 4.5/5 so lots of other people are happy with it.

choc_mouse

Never heard of Zoostorm but the reviews on ebuyer are generally positive. Looks OK to me and at £240 I wouldn't be too annoyed if it died after 1 year.

I always use Dell as my benchmark if you want to compare it with something. Don't really like them but I used them for work and their computers aren't that bad either.

Its_Mart

Thanks for the positive comments Bill and Choc (Both thanked), I'm warming to this PC more and more as I read the reviews / think about it.

To brief you my situation.
My laptop of 4 years or so is almost dead after about a year of being on its last legs.
I'm a student (so cash tight) and need a PC for word processing, iPlayer/DVD viewing, music playing, internet browsing.
I wouldn't be using it for games so a awesome graphics card isn't needed.
I want it to still be a realible machine in around 4 years time.

Thanks again,
Mart

choc_mouse

Even the most basic PCs these days allow you to do what you've listed with no problems, so this one looks OK.

I've never had a PC die completely on me but I'm kind of a geek so I can fix and replace certain components myself - but things are pretty reliable these days *touch wood*.

In 4 year's time, everything will have advanced as it always does but I could see you still being able to use it (pending reliability). At work we've got PCs that are 15 years old and they still run!