waxwabbit

Hehe

We all owe PCs a great debt, myself - I met my wife on the net, so owe Pcs for my impending green card (hehe)

If not our wives, then we owe a lot just for this forum don't we. Funny how we take them for granted - along with the internet.

Anyway, Ive been holding off buying a new PC in the Uk, seeing as Ill be in the US in a few months....

I remember being in Best Buy and drooling at all their goods, not just PCs.

So, what spec Pc have you got, where did you buy it from, and how much was it?

Im SO gonna be shopping when im in the US!!!!!



Lee

Pimpbot

I'd personally buy it online from Dell. Great deals.

Yosser

I use Dell at work (P4 very fast)

At home, it was the Xmas of 2001, Best Buy were selling a Pentium 3 1.6 Ghz, printer, 17" monitor, with XP for $395 with rebate...

Bargain, as its still going strong

Ray

Yup!!! You have to get a Dell... dude...

ireland132

We bought our UK PC from Dell 3 years ago and it has been great. As soon as we get to the US, we're ordering a spanking new one. I've already been checking on their website and for about $1200 you can get one with a pretty darn good spec.

Pimpbot

I should have added to my original post that we have a Dell also. I dont know what the exact spec is, but I know it was the top spec available when it was new last year.

Yosser

Anychance you could bring over my old favorite,

Spectrum 48k......

complete with rubber keys...perfect for daley thompsons decathalon!.

LuTziE

mines a bitsa.....bits of this, bits of that, its custom built, and was, and i repeat was top spect 18 months ago.....i seem to have a knack for buying something just before its obselete..sigh
athlon 1.4gig 512 mb ram, 60 gig hard drive, 64 meg geforce graphics card, cd burrner and dvd rom drives.........

now thats going to be my 71 yr old fathers, so its going to be one expensive doorstop soon.
at leasat my fiance has a dell, nice computers and not too expensive.
my first computer was a p60 btw...back in the heady days of 1994 *sigh*

LuTziE

didnt you find you got blisters playin decathlon, and it looked kinda suspect when a boy was in a darkened room holding that joystick and wobbling it side to side and grunting "im almost finished" at the 1,500 metres :P

PrincessofWales

oh my, I had that too, well it was my brother's actually, but I loved Daley Thompson's decathlon, so cool! I also tried to perfect my ice dance skills as well as ski jumping with the Winter Games gaming software. What memories.

My brother graduated to a Commodore 64 shortly thereafter. I was not allowed to touch that!

And boo hoo, my Dad has just sold my Acorn computer, he had no idea what to ask for it, I could have made a killing holding on to that for a few years and selling it on eBay.

waxwabbit

Only one thing I dont like about Dell, they only seem to do Pentium based machines......I hear AMD are just as good but cheaper to buy.

As for 1st pcs - well, not a pc, but a console

ATARI 2600

sob sob

memorieeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

Lee

Yosser

Quote "didnt you find you got blisters playin decathlon, and it looked kinda suspect when a boy was in a darkened room holding that joystick and wobbling it side to side and grunting "im almost finished" at the 1,500 metres :P"

LMAO

Damn thats funny

Pimpbot

This was my first introduction to computers


It wasnt actually mine though, it was my friends who lived across the road, but I practically moved in when he got his ZX81

My first actual owned computer was a Commodore vic 20, then I graduated the the 64 then on to an atari st, commodore amiga, 386, pentium 120, pentium 400 laptop, pentium 500 computer when I spilt coffee on my laptop and finally onto whatever this Dell 2.something or other is.

nathan barley

I would never buy a prebuilt PC like a Dell, or HP ect, because you can build your own for much less, and often it will be better quality and faster. Dell, etc often skimp on things like the graphics card ,many bundle pentium 4 systems with cheap graphics cards that were cutting edge 5 years ago, or with a cripplingly minute amount of RAM like 256mb.

I used Newegg.com to build my PC:
Athlon Barton 2800+
1Gig PC3700 RAM
ATI 9600 128Mb gfx card
19" Flatscreen Monitor
Two 120Gb Seagate 10,000 rpm hard drives with RAID
5.1 Soundcard

And so on. I built this top notch PC, ideal for video editing and heavy graphical work and games for under $1500.

Using retailers like Newegg, it's easy to undercut companies like Dell part for part on cheaper systems too.

PrincessofWales

I remember those, we had one at our primary school. What did we do with it, I still don't know, wasn't it a glorified calculator?