Excellent Dell desktop £329 delivered

debjk

Doesnt sound good does it :rolleyes:

however their customer service is brill I mailed them this morning asking why my order was not showing and I got a call back just saying it will be delivered on the 16th but they will call me just before to confirm

quidsinquentin

flyer wrote: »

Mine arrived this morning. I have set it up and the monitor flashes on and off every few seconds. After spending best part of an hour onto tech support, they tell me the video card does not support Vista!!!!!!

How the hell can they sell me a computer that doesn't work??????

Has anyone else heard of this issue???

I was just on the other screen about to order one for my son when I read this.

Bit wary now. Might ask for XP instead.

flyer

I didn't upgrade, I'm not a computer expert, and if they offer the basic one, surely it should work!

quidsinquentin

flyer wrote: »

I didn't upgrade, I'm not a computer expert, and if they offer the basic one, surely it should work!

That must come under the sale of goods act - where something sold has to be fit for purpose? Surely you can't have a PC sold that won't support the software on it?

alanobrien

Ours arrived yesterday, its up and running with all the new software i installed on it for her indoors. I have to say i was pretty impressed with the spec and build quality for such a low cost machine.

Vista is also quite snappy to respond with the basic graphics
set up. Up to this point i have always custom built my own machines but not anymore for this price.

flyer

I agree but he's saying I built the system by ticking boxes, not them. My point is, why offer a graphics card and Vista when you know the graphics card won't support Vista. His argument was that they don't know what customers are doing with the PC and they may be putting their own graphics card in!

flyer

alanobrien wrote: »

Ours arrived yesterday, its up and running with all the new software i installed on it for her indoors. I have to say i was pretty impressed with the spec and build quality for such a low cost machine.

Vista is also quite snappy to respond with the basic graphics
set up. Up to this point i have always custom built my own machines but not anymore for this price.

Did you buy the basic graphics card?

leilasmummy

i need to be able to go on the internet so do i need this, is the extra for a speedier one???
also my price comes to £269. have i made an error???

mamaduke

leilasmummy wrote: »

i need to be able to go on the internet so do i need this, is the extra for a speedier one???
also my price comes to £269. have i made an error???

Hi I also need the modem & was charged £352 inc vat & del so I think you havwe made an error somewhere.

Jim7

If you didn't upgrade then you must be using the "on board" graphics card, i.e. part of the motherboard. So in fact you did not even select this card, you were just buying the one recommended. This is definitiely their fault.

It would be like BMW giving you some different options for in-car stereo i.e. cassette/ CD etc. when they knew that the CD player would not work in that model of car.