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Poll: have i spent to much?

have i spent to much?
yes
9%
 9%  [ 1 ]
no
54%
 54%  [ 6 ]
your a shopaholic you need help
36%
 36%  [ 4 ]
Total Votes : 11
 
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03.06.2007, 23:03 quote

Anonymous

trevp66 wrote:
Aaah Dave...good call, but that seems like I'd need to assemble it like a kit (and possibly brain it up), or pay them to do it for me , and the Advance 'Sempron' deals do indeed range from £81 - £94 inc VAT, but like you say, i'd need other stuff on top of that aprt from my monitor, keyboard etc.


I've got a soundcard & cdrom drive knocking around. You can have those if you're willing to collect. As for assembly, I could do that for a couple of beers & a packet of peanuts.

The OS part of it isn't a problem if I could convert you to Linux.

ps for £15 you have everything apart from the soundcard, HD and cdrom drive installed .. those bits really are dead simple to insert! You cannot go wrong. I have guided novices over the internet on doing those bits.

 
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03.06.2007, 23:03 quote

Anonymous

one word EBAY

 
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03.06.2007, 23:06 quote

Anonymous

isn't it two words e and bay?

Pol the pedant xxx

 
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03.06.2007, 23:16 quote

Anonymous

its one word with two syllables hee hee

 
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03.06.2007, 23:30 quote

Anonymous

danni82 wrote:
its one word with two syllables hee hee


I'll take your word for it lovely lady!

 
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03.06.2007, 23:31 quote

Anonymous

pollyanna37 wrote:
danni82 wrote:
its one word with two syllables hee hee


I'll take your word for it lovely lady!


lol right this little hungover girl is off to bed night hun

 
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04.06.2007, 17:06 quote

Anonymous

scubawallace wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
a friend seems to think i've gone mad lately on spending on net shopping etc and thinks i need help lol but frankly i don't think i have as i'm zero in debt and money i've spent has come through working overtime and not saying on here but perfectly legal means.heres what ive spent in last week
2k on studio upgrades
1k on clothes
1.5 k on backyard so i can sunbath in it lol
bear in mind i have been doing overtime at work so its up to you lol


its your money dude you spend away Wink


I'm with Scuba on this one ... If you can afford to spend that kinda money without going into debt then I say Go for it !, I know I would if I had it

 
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04.06.2007, 17:25 quote

Anonymous

NIGHTWAVE WROTE : a friend seems to think i've gone mad lately on spending on net shopping etc and thinks i need help lol but frankly i don't think i have as i'm zero in debt and money i've spent has come through working overtime and not saying on here but perfectly legal means.heres what ive spent in last week
2k on studio upgrades
1k on clothes
1.5 k on backyard so i can sunbath in it lol
bear in mind i have been doing overtime at work so its up to you lol


ZEBRA3 WROTE : to drop 3.5k in a week you must have a great job? what do you do for a living nightwave? get me an application form?

 
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04.06.2007, 17:35 quote

Anonymous

trevp66 wrote:

Sooooo......back on thread.....what is the best cheapest deal on a pc I can get, considering I already have a monitor, keyboard, etc, can i get something for under £250?.....no actually, here's the challenge....Can you find something that comes in at under £100..?....now that'd be a real shopaholic beater...for your £2000 i'd be able to buy 20 pc's....or 18 pc's and a batch of cables to connect them up in a network....
Idea Wink Very Happy


Keep an eye out here for <£100 computers. They're out of stock atm, but they do 1.8Ghz base units for about £80 or so.

http://www.speedie.co.uk/acatalog/Pentium_4_Bases.html

You're still missing windows .. but really you should already have a copy or use a free OS like Linux because that alone is going to swallow around 1/2 of that budget (at a minimum) unless it's an illegal copy. Personally, I'd recommend a version of Linux suited for the non-technical person, because it's legal and free. The learning curve is worth it for the many years of free updates to the OS.

The cost of windows is becoming an ever increasingly important issue as the price of computers continues to nose dive. A bundled copy, whilst cheap, is only an insignificant amount until you get to the <£200 point. Unless you're prepared to steal it, then whether you love it or hate it, the cost is important. I went the legal route some years ago, because I figured I didn't want to trust sensitive data to h4x0rs or spend time searching for cracks and serials and all that rubbish ... windows (although quite nice) is only free if your time is worthless, in my view.

 
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04.06.2007, 17:54 quote

Anonymous

trevp66 wrote:
but i'm 41, past learning new stuff


ney lad, your a young cherub yet! theres oap's out there learning programming and what not, its always good to learn some new stuff.

 
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04.06.2007, 18:05 quote

Anonymous

trevp66 wrote:
Cheers Dave (nice haircut btw) thx for the pm too. So the sub-£100 pc is a possibility after all...I would follow your other advice on the OS too but i'm 41, past learning new stuff, I think i'll stick to the familiarity of windows and just have to increase the budget to compensate. So new challenge then, sub-£150 complete pc loaded with windows, no building, no learning new stuff, in a box from a shop, whaddya reckon mmm?


A bit higher and your options start to broaden. I'd say the learning curve is pretty shallow, and not at all scarey, for most people. Browsers, music players, email software and most other common things don't vary much at all regardless of OS. The changes across different versions of windows are probably as much as dumping it altogether for most people.

Anyway, nuff preaching, you're the boss.

Dell's cheapest via their refurbished machines is £220.
http://outlet.dell.com/Emea_Dfo/EuDispatcher?target=InventoryPage&action=sort&sortColumn=price_constraint&lob=DIM&sessionID=GkS1Y2Zt!-871381606!1341315483!1180979957680#inventoryTable

ebuyer do a £200 PC

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/search/index.html?rb=28384164761&strSearch=&strOrderBy=decSellPriceExcVat&strOrderDir=ascending&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=5&intCatID=190&bolShowAll=true

Getting below £150 seems to involve either buying one of those 1.8ghz machines and your OS separately or doubling your budget to include windows and get a slightly better spec machine. I cannot find the middle ground so far. This probably also demonstrates to you part of why I'm quite keen to recommend dumping windows. £100 can buy you a fair bit of extra PC kit, like a laser printer, a reasonable digi cam or some sort of mp3 player or a noticeable improvement in the spec of the PC. Anyway, I'm not preaching, but just pointing out where else the money could go.

 
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