Good spec/price?

spud17

A friend works from home and has after a fair bit of nagging has been given a new PC.
Most of his work involves spreadsheets to compile tenders for building contracts. After the closure of his local office no one was available locally to help him with setting it up.
So he asked me as a mate for a hand.
Setting up involved fitting his dialup modem (won't go into why not BB), email and running him through XP professional.
For helping him he reckons he could get me the same deal.

Asus Vintage3 PE3,Mini Tower, P5S800-Vm mainboard,8xusb,SATA,IDE, 10/100network,Video,Audio.Socket775,AGP, Black £70
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500,2.2ghz £90
1Gb DDR2 800mhz x2 £68
160Gb Western Digital Hard Drive, SATA 10000rpm,8mb Cache £39

I cannot find the exact match for the ASUS, also from the sheet that was in with the PC it is not clear whether the prices are plus VAT or not.

There was no charge shown for assembly. I can do it myself if necessary.
I already have a new DVD rewriter, and would use XP home (£55)
I think that with XP home I'd only need 1gb RAM so saving £34.

I don't play games, use a few spreadsheets, general surfing (family tree) and email.

Is this offer worth investigating?

Dell spec is similar in price but these components are (possibly) more flexible if wanting to upgrade.

PS. Any offers for his old PC? Citrix 300mhz, 64mbRAM, 2Gb HD,Win98se,Office97.
No wonder it wouldn't work his Samsung 4in1 laser printer/copier/scanner/fax.

realist_2

Dialup? Does your friend live in a normal home or a special home? If you could have even bothered to google you'd know e4500 -£75, mem. double priced and try to do the planet a favour and crush your friends old pc in order to minimise land-fill impact.

dbea23

I just got this and it is excellent value for money. You get £50 cashback too from HP.

It's faster than your spec (Dual 2.6), bigger hard drive, double memory, Lightscribe DVD writer and comes with vista basic licence. Also one year onsite warranty.

Works out at just over £180 delivered with the cashback. You can get a tenner back through quidco too.

http://www.microwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/HPPC1194

It's being heavily discussed over at HotUkdeals and everyone is well pleased with it. You couldn't build it yourself for that price!

Oh yeah, comes with a 56k Modem too...

bookduck

spud17 wrote: »

... PS. Any offers for his old PC? Citrix 300mhz, ....

I'll make you and offer, if he lives near me, pay me £50 I'll take it to the skip

That hp is not a bad deal! This spec is similar but AMD Athlon X2 4200 Dual Core 64 £245.57 Inc Vat from http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/pcranges.html

spud17

Dialup? Does your friend live in a normal home or a special home?

Ever heard of DACS, dialup works OK for the miniscule amount of email i.e documents.
Currently internet costs about £5/mth.
Not everyone downloads/surfs all day.

If you could have even bothered to google you'd know e4500 -£75,

I've heard of Google, is it any good?
I take it you couldn't find the ASUS either, could be a typo on the sheet.

The point is, while the prices I show were not the cheapest they are what were quoted by a real physical shop, with personal after sales service, if required.
I don't mind paying a couple of quid extra, if I am able to call up and get good free advice.

comes with vista basic licence

Give me XP Home any day.

Oh yeah, comes with a 56k Modem too.

Why would I want one?

NotreDame

The HP system for c£183 (post cashback) looks excellent.

My system has c500 RAM and a 30GB memory,so HP one much better (though some people seem to have reservations about Vista as a O/S.. why?)

I was thinking of buying, swapping for my existing desktop and then giving my existing desktop to my mother-in-law. Anyone know of any reason I can't do that? (i.e. swap desktops)... stupid question maybe, but no good on PC hardware issues.