Where's the best place to buy a new computer

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by pookie, Oct 13, 2011.

  1. pookie

    pookie

    Thanks, Scataphagos.

    I went to dell.com and the quoted price was $779.
     
    #11     Oct 13, 2011
  2. #12     Oct 13, 2011
  3. nkhoi

    nkhoi

  4. ASE1245

    ASE1245

    If you not interested in building your own computer, stick with Dell. Pay a little extra for the OS disk. If you don't like all the extra crap on the PC, do a fresh install from the OS disk and use their supplied disk for drivers. You get a fresh install that way and a PC from a good company for support.
     
    #14     Oct 13, 2011
  5. Agree about "if not BIY"... but probably should not "use their supplied disk for drivers".. rather, go to Dell's support website and download most current drivers... rarely are the drivers on the accompanying disk current.
     
    #15     Oct 13, 2011
  6. "3 GB DDR3 SDRAM"... Odd, usually you see 2 or 4. In any case he'd want to add RAM -- 3gig isn't enough these days, even for light to moderate use.
     
    #16     Oct 13, 2011
  7. pookie

    pookie

    Thanks so much everyone.
     
    #17     Oct 13, 2011
  8. Not necessarily... "3G of RAM" actually can make sense. If in single sticks, is the minimum to take advantage of "triple channel memory" ... Try and see before drawing conclusions. Lots of folks are needlessly/wastefully "over RAM'd"..

    (I've got 4GB RAM installed.. have NEVER utilized more than 1GB of it.)
     
    #18     Oct 13, 2011
  9. Sign up to receive the discount coupons. You can take I think it's 15% off from the listed price on the dellout site. They send these out every month or two.
     
    #19     Oct 13, 2011
  10. Running what OS?... Recent Win versions suck up ~1gig right off bootup.
     
    #20     Oct 13, 2011