core2duo

lil_chooa

this a good dell deal for 575pounds????

Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6400 Processor (2.13GHz, 1066MHz, 2MB)
English Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Dell™ 20" Black Wide Flat Panel (E207WFP)
1024MB Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz
250GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst™ cache
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
256MB ATI® Radeon® X1300 Pro graphics card
Integrated Audio with Dolby Digital 7.1 capability

wolfman

Yeah it looks ok. Not sure if it's an absolute bargain, but for the price you're getting a good deal. If anything it looks well spec'd and quite nicely balanced. The 20" Dell TFT is nice, and the Core 2 Duo is a good choice.

shaunc196

Well that looks grand to me. I mean, your looking at over £200 just for the monitor itself. The GFX card is good, and 1gb ram. 250bg SATA drive are really good.

Personally, only thing that lets it down, is VISTA. For the time being, at least 6-8months, I would still choose XP

mr_rush

OP - could you send me a link to this computer please?
thanks

Zagu

shaunc196 wrote:

Personally, only thing that lets it down, is VISTA. For the time being, at least 6-8months, I would still choose XP

I agree, but a friend told me that Dell still supply XP for business, so it might be worth looking to see if Dell do a similar business PC, if thats what youd prefer.

Bamber19

could you not then just buy it and put on your old copy of XP?

Also does Vista have the same issue that XP had at first where you would get software and it's requirements would be for example 256MB Ram for all operating systems but 512MB for Windows XP? and does Vista have compatibility modes like XP has?

Storman_2

I'd say it's a fair price. You could do a lot worse. Oh,and I agree with the others regarding Vista. If you do get one with Vista then get the most powerful one you can afford otherwise the Aero features will sap your system. Yes you can turn it off but then you might as well have bought XP - at least that is now a solid os with drivers that actually work. Do you really want to contribute to Microsoft's testing program with your hard earned cash ?

lil_chooa

mr rush,
i got this offer by phoning them, its not online.

peterg1965

Agree, it looks like a good deal and Dell are not a bad company. I too would shy away from VISTA for now, at least until it is a year or so in and all the bugs are ironed out. However, it is probably difficult to find a decent new PC without it. The 20" screen sounds great.

moneysaver05_2

Hi lil_chooa would you be able to post a dell refrence number/code to the above spec dell computerso we can find it because i want to buy it. They would have given you a ref number for you computer, can you also tell us what dimension machine this is?
cheers and excellent find BTW :T

wolfman

Storman wrote:

I'd say it's a fair price. You could do a lot worse. Oh,and I agree with the others regarding Vista. If you do get one with Vista then get the most powerful one you can afford otherwise the Aero features will sap your system.

That spec will easily handle Aero. Aero only adds load to the GPU (Graphics). As far as the CPU is concerned it's no different from not running Aero at all.

Storman wrote:

Yes you can turn it off but then you might as well have bought XP - at least that is now a solid os with drivers that actually work. Do you really want to contribute to Microsoft's testing program with your hard earned cash ?

Not necessarily. XP by design is flawed. Vista is a much better concept, very similar to Linux in the way that its UAC works. Vista will do you fine, and everything in the package will (or should do) work with Vista (otherwise it'd be a poor package on Dell's behalf).

Vista will be fine on your pc. I wouldn't worry about the hassles of getting XP, or reinstalling the whole system.

peterg1965 wrote:

Agree, it looks like a good deal and Dell are not a bad company. I too would shy away from VISTA for now, at least until it is a year or so in and all the bugs are ironed out. However, it is probably difficult to find a decent new PC without it. The 20" screen sounds great.

What bugs? Again people seem to assume there are bugs. It's an easy bandwagon to jump on, but there's often no evidence (or at least not yet). Vista is no different from when XP first came out. People were fine then. They released SP1, everyone upgraded, they released SP2, everyone upgraded again. The same will happen with Vista.

Typically businesses will wait a year, but that's about more than just initial bugs. The typical home user will be fine with Vista.