My New Computer?

Dells aren't good? Huh, we just rolled out over 600 Dells at my company and we had maybe 5 that had problems with hard drives and it only took a few days to get the HDDs replaced. That's great compared to a company I worked for before that got Gateways and had about 3 out of every 10 with problems. Dell has always been good for me whether at work or home so I always suggest them.

I have never had a problem with a dell that wasnt resolved within 2 days at most.

God i hate gateway.

A couple of years ago I did a work placement with a company and my job meant me going to visit the production facility of a leading computer manufacturer. All I can say is that when I got to the shop floor I was horrified at the way they treated those PCs, both desktops and laptops. The people putting them together were nothing more than a bunch of school drop-outs who really weren't interested and couldn't care less about the way they handled parts of a PC for which someone was gonna pay £1000 - £2000 of their hard-earned cash for. I had to do some laptop failure diagnostics and about 90% of them were machines that were returned even before being sold cos some monkey had put a screwdriver across the screen.














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I don't like that machine; it won't run "The Dig" and therefore is inferior.

The Dig is one of the greatest games ever, along with Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, all of those good Lucas Arts adventure games

This is what I ended up buying. Its a great deal and looky at the price. I like it very much. We didn't buy a monitor/lcd because we already have a 21" CRT and its fine to keep. Maybe when the finances are better (after we cushined in this blow to the account ), we'll buy a new monitor. In a few months... Anyways, we'll be buying a color printer (our current ONLY prints color, not black ) and here is what we bought::::

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Dell Dimension 4550 Series
Pentium® 4 Processor at 2.66GHz w/533MHz front side bus/ 512K L2 Cache  
FREE Upgrade! 256MB DDR SDRAM at 333MHz

3.5 in Floppy Drive
16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
FREE UPGRADE! New 4x DVD+RW/+R Drive w/CD-RW
60GB Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive

New 128mb DDR ATI Radeon™ 9700 TX Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
Harman Kardon HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
IEEE Firewire Card

Dell® Quietkey® Keyboard
Logitech® Optical USB Mouse

56K PCI Telephony Modem
Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional

WordPerfect® Productivity Pack with Quicken New User Edition
Dell SecurityCenter by McAfee, 90-day introductory offer
Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
Dell Picture Studio, Image Expert Standard
3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year At-Home Service
6 Months of America Online Membership Included
RealOne™ Player, with 14 day SuperPass trial

$50 Special Offer
FREE Shipping and Handling

Final Price: $1,228.00
Estimated Arrival: May 2, 2003

i got a series 4550 too a few months ago. my dad insisted on having a dell over a custom made PC. it was a good choice. i prpbably paid the same as you ..im not gonna do any conversion. i hav a 2GHz and no DVD writer... but the price went up because i took the two (CDROM and RW) in different slots). But i love my dell anyways!!
i like when a company like dell makes the comps cause then you have the best parts, custom made PC don;t always come with the best parts and if you want to build your own with the best parts, it's gonna end up costing the same as a DELL without the warrenty and the other things they put in there. dell is SO much quiter then my old pc!!!! i love that!!

btw, enjoy the pc!!

P.S: my uncle has a IBM and it keeps braking down for somereason....that's why i am a little suspicious towards IBM!! and to put in one thing, i never used a custom made PC. so i can't talk from my experience, but i;ve seen others use them.

Originally posted by CheesyMoo
The Dig is one of the greatest games ever, along with Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, all of those good Lucas Arts adventure games

You left out Tie Fighter and Redneck Rampage; while they're not adventure, they are

Should have gotten more RAM

Originally posted by golfinguy4
Should have gotten more RAM

We'll buy some more later, the price for upgrading was quite a bit. 256 is fine for now as our current computer is 196 and its runs him with XP and the games we have.

Definatly, 512 is our goal.