> What a steal!
Indeed!
> I know some of you are saying it may not be the greatest PC out there,
> [...]
Never mind what others would think as long as you're happy with the new
"tool" or "toy"
Good luck
"Ron K." <RonK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just got one hell of a good deal at my local Best Buy! I got an AMD
>Athlon
> 64x2
> 4600+ 2.4 gigs with 2 gig of RAM, a 400 gig SATA HD, and all the other
> bells and whistles included. Gues what i paid? $400! Yup you read right!
> It
> was a floor model which was marked down from $1100 to $600 (monitor not
> included), i had priced building one at about $1500, so I decided to
> purchase
> the system; when the cashier scanned the computer, it rang up at only
> $400! I
> informed the cashier that was the wrong price, she spoke with the manager
> who
> let me have the machine for the $400! What a steal! I know some of you
> are
> saying it may not be the greatest PC out there, but man the CPU and the
> RAM
> alone would have cost me $400 alone to custom build! (The CPU was just
> above
> $200 bucks while the RAM was just under $200). I also got a "coupon" for
> Vista Premium, not a bad deal eh?
>
> This is a big jump from an Athlon XP 1 gig CPU with 512 mgs of RAM. I
> don't
> plan on junking the old machine, I am going to use it as a storage
> machine. I
> plan on stripping it down to just a network card, video card, a cheap DVD
> burner, and a HD or two. I'll probably use XP on it to save resources.
>
> Looking forward to seeing how Vista will run this machine, on my older
> system Aero glass did not work nor did some of the other features. I'm not
> planing on installing RC1 or 2, gonna wait for the real deal. peace out!