Dell Dimension 3000 2.66Ghz, 1Gb, 160Gb, 17"TFT £328 [CLOSED]

calibrax

bleugh wrote:

I beg to differ

I challenge you to see a difference between a 2.6 Gig celeron and a 3.6 gig pentium4 in day to day applications,

heck, you wont see that great a difference between the two in games also

yes, if you have the money, spend more on the pentium 4,
if you havent tho, £328 is excellent price

........besides, its not trivial to upgrade hard drives (for most people) when it becomes full
and, the monitor is the thing you look at most often with your PC, so is the most important part

if you save over a year, a P4 chip to replace your celeron will cost peanuts and is a fairly simple swap

DONT be sucked in by the GHz game, that stopped mattering around the 2 GHz mark

I agree. The processor is fast for most things. The only areas where it will slow down are things like very large image processing and games. Image processing is where the 1GB RAM will make a HUGE difference over 512k. I'd certainly rather have a Celeron with 1GB RAM than a P4 with 512k.

And if you're after a high level games machine, don't even think about looking in this price range... in fact, you need to spend around £300 on a graphics card ALONE!!

Upgrading a hard drive with these machines is a major job. Replacing the existing drive involves reformat, reinstall windows, drivers etc. which is beyond the scope of many PC users. Although with most machines it's relatively easy to add an additional hard drive, this particular model does not have a spare hard drive bay so you'd have to buy/make some kind of alternative holder, or get an adapter to use one of the optical drive bays. Very fiddly.

And it's true that clock speeds are meaningless now... Intel have even stopped using GHz, they now call their chips by model numbers, ie. the P4 355, and P4 560 etc.

For example, I have a PC being delivered next month which has an Athlon 64 3500+ processor... it runs at a clock speed just 2.2GHz, yet it outperforms a P4 3.4GHz processor. Maybe that's why Intel have switched to using model numbers...!

Steve

bleugh

there is one of these up on blimmin ebay already, go on, own up, which one of you is it? (link from the inquirer)
5203730684

sdl811

Mines comes tomorrow, but........I phone about not getting the ahem "Free printer", the guy on the phone said as a good will guesture he will credit me 20quid so i can order it on it's own........fab, so a system with cdrw/dvd for £320 delivered....

Pricy147

sdl811 wrote:

Mines comes tomorrow, but........I phone about not getting the ahem "Free printer", the guy on the phone said as a good will guesture he will credit me 20quid so i can order it on it's own........fab, so a system with cdrw/dvd for £320 delivered....

my pc hasnt come with the free printer either! Those of you that have phoned dell and got it refunded/sent out - could you pm me your order number to that I can use it as proof im not the only one. They keep refusing that it came with a printer and keep saying the pcs come with three offers (memory, tft, free delivery).

Do you have any contact details (number/person) who sorted this out for you?

Thanks,,,,

gazza007

I emailed the customer care [email="UKI_Customer_Care@dell.com"]UKI_Customer_Care@dell.com[/email]
Copied them the original URL.
Printer is arriving tomorrow. Better get some refill kits
Setup the system today with a belkin wireless router to NTL.
Absolutely excellent.

Pricy147

Could you pm me the original url so that I send them the same one please?

DRiz

I have a dell all in one printer which i got really cheap (from dell)
very happy with it, but....

there cartridges are the most expensive i'v come accross £26...black
£26...colour and they run out in no time and impossible to get remakes.
other makes sell there's really cheap (epson...cannon for £1)

Just warning u

gibbajabba

Hi,can you pm me that url too please,does anyone that got a printer through asking also have an order number that they can pm me,when i told them my friend called and got one they asked me for his order no,thanks.

tonyg_2

The £328 offer appears to be over.
Tx

Pricy147

same here - anyone got a screen print of the original offer showing the printer?? Would much appreciate if you could pm me! Also any order number which have successfully obtained the printer would be great - Dell arent having any of it!