Fujitsu Minitower PC Base / XP Home / 512 MB - £200 inc VAT

RockSteady_3

I called the number at the top of this thread the 0870 one, which is national rate, but when I asked they said I can call 01628 820 600 too.

Delivery is £12 for next day courier if ordered and paid for before 3PM and if I wanted more than one the additional ones are only £6.

I emailed my order today to sales @ adelante .co .uk for the £299 one, thanks buglawton! Anyone out there want an old brown PIII that cost me over £800 a few years ago and takes 8 minutes to start up ? By tomorrow I will be in the 21 century (IT wise at least! Now for my clothes ....)

daleuk_3

The same company sell these on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250006510901

buglawton

Well spotted link daleuk!
Interestingly they seem to be selling the £225 one I listed above for £240 on Ebay - see http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZchrisadelante for all the ones they are listing currently.

TheoP_2

The £225 one is also sold here from a Tottenham Court Road store for £299!

http://www.microanvika.com/FUJITSU/product.asp?TXT=INFO&PNO=FUJ11669

Brockyman

RockSteady wrote:

Anyone out there want an old brown PIII that cost me over £800 a few years ago and takes 8 minutes to start up ? By tomorrow I will be in the 21 century (IT wise at least! Now for my clothes ....)

If you PC is taking so long to start up it probably just needs a clean up. Every year or so I back up everything I need to save, do a reformat on the hard drive and reinstall windows. The difference is really amazing. Over a period your windows install fills up with all sorts of rubbish and all these things take time to load. Getting rid of them brings your computer back to like new and should only take two or three hours. Fonts are particularly bad for this and sometimes you can have hundreds or even thousands of the things without realising.
I run a Pentium 111 1ghz which came from Aldi about 6 years ago now and it still does everything I need it to, runs windows ME too which I also still find more than adequate for my needs which is mostly surfing the net, a bit of photo manipulation and burning CD's for my sons band.
Cheers
Ian.

RockSteady_3

Thanks Ian.

It is short of memory and disk space which is a big part of the issue. It has been reloaded too many times. I use XP at the office which BSOD's almost never compared to this one with 98. Rather than spend good money upgrading this old box I now have a new one for not a lot more. And I can use the old one for backup.

The first thing I noticed, apart from the huge speed difference is the noise, or lack of it. Funny how you get used to an old PC whirring away. As a surprise, it also has Firewire, all the CDs for recovering it and plenty of USB ports and other extra software I am still working out. Bad news is that the kids love it... I may never get near it.

buglawton

Got mine too (the £225 one). It has a multi way card reader not mentioned in the spec list to substitute for the lack of a floppy drive. Yours model is quite? Good, hope mine is too as I haven't plugged it in yet.

biglugs

6200Turbocache card is really only fit for the bin if you want to play modern games at decent resolutions. And you don't need to spend £300 on a graphics card - you can get a 256MB 7600GT for around £100 these days and that will play most games at pretty high settings with no problems.

RockSteady_3

That may be so if playing games is the main use, the one I have would appear to be a bargain even if it had arrrived with no graphic card at all. I am not sure I could have built one this good myself for this price.

My brother bought a super duper graphics card for just under £165 about 2 years ago. Within a year, you could get them for £40 on ebay and the bog standard cheap cards in most PCs were almost as fast.

This is the Bargain Buys forum after all, not Benchmarks and Peformance (if there is one!). You get lots of bang for your buck, if you want leading edge bang, you gotta expect to fork out lots more buck.

biglugs

This is the Bargain Buys forum after all, not Benchmarks and Peformance (if there is one!).

If you're going to say that about graphics cards then you certainly shouldn't be pushing any PC offers. Almost every bit of kit, including the PC itself, will be next to worthless within 3 years, and pretty much less than half the price in about 2 years. All you can do is try to guess what you are going to do in the next 2-3 years and buy the cheapest machine for that.