Would you buy this?
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Probably not, the OS is/was worth about £50 but the rest isn't that great from what I can tell having looked up the specifications. It is a P4 based machine, slow memory, not a large hard drive and it uses AGP 4x graphics. I'd even consider a laptop ahead of it as I managed to pick up one with better specifications for about that sort of price range(albeit with very limited upgradability).
It's the way technology advances. My last machine cost around £1000 to build, its just over 2.5 years old and obsolete. I would have likely got more selling the components than selling the complete PC. The memory alone cost me £190, yet I expected no more than £300 for the whole PC. I used it to upgrade my missus from a PIII 600.
New, better and more usefully upgradeable machines than the Dimension 4400 are available for not much more than £250.
New, better and more usefully upgradeable machines than the Dimension 4400 are available for not much more than £250.
it might be an oem copy of xp so it wouldn't be worth the 50 either.
the motherboard won't be standard, (dell specific power supply, and xtra connector on mb). the case won't fit a standard mb ( unless it's different from all the others I've met) so even to break it for spare parts you are limited.
Mind you, if all you do is email and surf why not?
turbotoes
the motherboard won't be standard, (dell specific power supply, and xtra connector on mb). the case won't fit a standard mb ( unless it's different from all the others I've met) so even to break it for spare parts you are limited.
Mind you, if all you do is email and surf why not?
turbotoes
To be honest the second hand market is absolutely SUPERB for anyone looking to pickup a slightly dated, run-of-the-mill machine for general windows work (i.e. not most of the people on this forum!).
I mean the way prices are on older kit, you can get something like a complete ~2ghz/512meg/gf4/60gig/dvd-rw system well cheap, maybe something around the £150 mark?
OK so that's not exactly going to be blisteringly quick, but when you bear in mind that you can barely get a midrange graphics card for that kind of money, that's a pretty good deal for a full PC which would be perfectly adequate for a lot of people.
It's not like the old days, when buying something a few years out of date meant you'd be running low on RAM, constantly paging to a tiny HD barely big enough for windows and a few apps, with no sound/network or burning capabilities.
I mean the way prices are on older kit, you can get something like a complete ~2ghz/512meg/gf4/60gig/dvd-rw system well cheap, maybe something around the £150 mark?
OK so that's not exactly going to be blisteringly quick, but when you bear in mind that you can barely get a midrange graphics card for that kind of money, that's a pretty good deal for a full PC which would be perfectly adequate for a lot of people.
It's not like the old days, when buying something a few years out of date meant you'd be running low on RAM, constantly paging to a tiny HD barely big enough for windows and a few apps, with no sound/network or burning capabilities.
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geeza said:
i don't think it is
