Buying a small computer for internet use only

adogintheocean

adogintheocean

adogintheocean

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am lookin to spend about £300 - £400 on a computer which will only really be used for surfing the internet and not much else. its going to be used with a 50" pioneer plasma and must be quite small and not too unsightly because its going to be in a living room. any suggestions?
 
CA-008-AS OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (CA-008-AS)
£51.60 £51.60
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£43.50 £43.50
CD-001-BQ BenQ DW1650 16x16 DVD RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-001-BQ)
£23.50 £23.50
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-056-GI Gigabyte GA_M51GM-S2G Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-056-GI)
£49.95 £49.95
GX-093-AS Asus GeForce EN7300GS-HTD 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-093-AS)
£37.95 £37.95
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£54.95 £54.95
FG-024-AK Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK)
£9.95 £9.95
HS-020-AR Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (HS-020-AR)
£5.95 £5.95
Subtotal £337.30
VAT £59.03
Total £396.33

Small and quiet with plenty of storage for video etc, graphics are fine for running HD content and the cpu is fairly fast :) plus it is about as future proofed as you are gonna get for £400
 
Can I throw a curve ball and suggest the Mac Mini?

The base model is £399 and while its spec is pretty tame, the system itself is barely larger than your average CDROM drive :eek: . It's also got internal WiFi & bluetooth (for your cordless keyboards and mice) plus a wee frontrow remote for media playback.

Oh and it can run XP :D
 
I know it's a bit off the wall, but there are hardware thin client terminals that have a built in IE6/Firefox application.

If all you want is a net browser, then they could be an option.

+ faster boot time/lower power/~£50 s/h
 
CA-025-SV Silverstone Lascala SST-LC03 HTPC Case (Black) (CA-025-SV) 1
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM) 1
£59.95 £59.95
MB-145-AS Asus M2NPV-VM Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-144-AS) 1
£54.95 £54.95
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL) 1
£54.95 £54.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN) 1
£40.95 £40.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA) 1
£43.50 £43.50
CD-030-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE) 1
£21.95 £21.95
Subtotal £346.20
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £62.51
Total £419.66


Motherboard provides onboard graphics, better looking case and more stable PSU

Is the Aspire X-Qpack ATX version 2?
 
UKTopGun said:
Just to the guys speccing - if he only is wanting it for web browsing does he really need a 250GB hard-drive?
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being used with a 50" pioneer plasma, could use it to playback HD video which uses loads of space
 
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