Is this Dell a good buy

danielnoahsmommy · Mar 26, 2009, 05:22 PM

Sounds like a good deal until you need support. They hook you up with someone in india. Theyy give you a royal run around. You can pay extra for us support. But in my case they refused to correct their techs error and have the nerve to ask me to by another service contract.

seahwk83 · Mar 26, 2009, 05:22 PM

That's nice

I would think for that though you should get at least Home Premium Vista and Not Vista basic

Think it would have modem included

ScottGem · Mar 26, 2009, 06:27 PM

I just went to HP.com and built a simialr system for $789. But with a QUAD processor and a monitor with built in speakers.

chaosmaster1 · Mar 29, 2009, 10:46 PM

I wouldn't pay more than 600 for it there seems to be a lot of extra stuff in there that you probably wouldn't need at all

hogansandy · Mar 30, 2009, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by chaosmaster1

i wouldn't pay more than 600 for it there seems to be a lot of extra stuff in there that you probably wouldn't need at all

Like what don't I need

Helljack6 · Mar 30, 2009, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by hogansandy

like what don't I need

Anything and everything that has Dell's name on it or attached to it. You're paying for software that has compatibiltiy issues (MS Works 9) with other office orientated software. You're paying for dell online backup for one year (use Ghost - http://www.helljack6.com/ghost) to do your backups, and it's free. And you're literally paying for a free product, Adobe PDF reader 9.

Go to Tigerdirect and build a better machine with just specifically the operating system for about 200-300 bucks less.

jmw0713 · Mar 30, 2009, 09:21 AM

If you want something out of the box, go with HP. Dell sucks and their customer service is horrible.

You may even want to consider building something yourself, although that can be a hassle if you don't know what you're doing.

chaosmaster1 · Mar 30, 2009, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by jmw0713

If you want something out of the box, go with HP. Dell sucks and their customer service is horrible.

You may even want to consider building something yourself, although that can be a hassle if you don't know what you're doing.

I have to agree with you on that but if you do wnat to go with the dell I would get only 2 gb ram unless you plan or doing some gaming or video editing and you could even slice the hdd space in half to a 250 or even something smaller to save some money

Is this Dell a good buy

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