Dan6061 Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 (edited) I'm after a pretty basic dektop computer, just for genral use.Such as: Pictures, Music, Internet etc.No online gomaing or anything...I've only got £250 to spend, and don't want to 'wait to get more to get this super dooper mind blowing computer for £15393...' Was looking at this Acer Aspire SA80I know it doesn't come with a monitor, but I've already got a pretty good Dell one in my room, and I can get speakers.Seems ok to me, for £224...Any good?Any other makes and models I should be looking at? Also what shops?I found this Aspire just by a quick search on Google...Cheers. EDIT: Just found this one, seems a better spec then the other one to me... Edited September 2, 2006 by Dan6061 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Kearns Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 The one you edited and found is your best option, nice pc there, shoudl do you fine.Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtrials Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Dell seem to do some pretty good deals, have a look on their site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 256 Ram is nowhere near enough. Don't bother with less than 512, even 1Gb is sensible. Get a cheaper CPU/smaller hard drive etc if you have to. P.S. That second one doesn't come with Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Aston Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Bit more than you will to spend but for a extra £50 you get a better spec pc. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/102522/rb/21480551316 That also has room for upgrades which is good. Do not buy a low end Dell i have one and its rrubbishbrought 3 mmodelsof memory for it non of them work and one was the one dell said to buy. Hope this helped Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) 256 Ram is nowhere near enough. Don't bother with less than 512, even 1Gb is sensible. Get a cheaper CPU/smaller hard drive etc if you have to. P.S. That second one doesn't come with Windows. Like I said, it'll just be for general use. The PC i'm on now only has 256mb ram, and an 80gb hard drive...does the job. Bit more than you will to spend but for a extra £50 you get a better spec pc. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/102522/rb/21480551316 That also has room for upgrades which is good. Do not buy a low end Dell i have one and its rrubbishbrought 3 mmodelsof memory for it non of them work and one was the one dell said to buy. Hope this helped Joe i was looking at Dells, but they start at £299 from what I could see.Might go for that one off eBuyer you showed me. EDIT: Is there any PC shops that would sell any half decent computers for around £250?PC World etc... Edited September 3, 2006 by Dan6061 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Like I said, it'll just be for general use. The PC i'm on now only has 256mb ram, and an 80gb hard drive...does the job. So why buy a new one if it's basically gonna be exactly the same? Seriously, get 512. You'll thank me later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 (edited) So why buy a new one if it's basically gonna be exactly the same? Seriously, get 512. You'll thank me later. Because I want one for my room.What about this one though?any good?You said before it doesn't come with windows...[attachmentid=6839] Edited September 3, 2006 by Dan6061 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Because I want one for my room.What about this one though?any good?You said before it doesn't come with windows...[attachmentid=6839]Interesting: (From the same site)# AMD Sempron 3000+ Processor# 80GB SATA Hard Drive# 256MB DDR RAM# DVD-ROM Drive# ATI RS482 on-die graphics# LAN Ethernet# OS: Linux Linpus# Standard warranty - 3 Years (One year on site, Two years Return to Base)Considering XP Pro is about £100 OEM anyway, I'd be surprised if they bundled it with a £250 PC. If anything, they would have XP Home. My guess is that it's a typo, but you could check. Of course, you could always get XP separately from, well, wherever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Does the downstairs computer have xp professional?If so, and you are a bit techy, I would buy the most shittest computer you can (possibly second hand) and use RDC (remote desktop connection) to basically log into the remote computer. For decent performance, you need 500mhz processor. Huge RAM is not a necessity. You'll get one for like £50, so you have £200 left in the back burner for drugs and prostitution.I have one decent computer in my house, the one in my bedroom. I also have several generations of old pc's in other bedrooms and one downstairs. They all use terminal services to log into their XP accounts on this server and experience the same speed as they would if they were on this pc, despite running at worst on a 266mhz steam powered beast (there's a SLIGHT lag on this one, but hardly noticable).My 2p. Works for me.Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Interesting: (From the same site)*QUOTE*Considering XP Pro is about £100 OEM anyway, I'd be surprised if they bundled it with a £250 PC. If anything, they would have XP Home. My guess is that it's a typo, but you could check. Of course, you could always get XP separately from, well, wherever... Yeah I was wondering that.What's the Linux thing all about? I'm thinking of going for that one, then getting XP for it... Does the downstairs computer have xp professional?If so, and you are a bit techy, I would buy the most shittest computer you can (possibly second hand) and use RDC (remote desktop connection) to basically log into the remote computer. For decent performance, you need 500mhz processor. Huge RAM is not a necessity. You'll get one for like £50, so you have £200 left in the back burner for drugs and prostitution.I have one decent computer in my house, the one in my bedroom. I also have several generations of old pc's in other bedrooms and one downstairs. They all use terminal services to log into their XP accounts on this server and experience the same speed as they would if they were on this pc, despite running at worst on a 266mhz steam powered beast (there's a SLIGHT lag on this one, but hardly noticable).My 2p. Works for me.Mark Downstairs computer has XP Home. I have our old and realllyyyy shit computer in my room, and it's really slow and annoying. Even with only windows on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 What's the Linux thing all about? It's free, so if they're wanting to sell cheap computer it seems like a good deal. But who isn't gonna want Windows, really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted September 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 It's free, so if they're wanting to sell cheap computer it seems like a good deal. But who isn't gonna want Windows, really? So is it not possible to run Windows on that computer?Or will I be able to delete Linux, then install Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 So is it not possible to run Windows on that computer?Or will I be able to delete Linux, then install Windows? Yeah, of course you can install windows. You just have to buy your own copy, it doesn't come with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted September 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 Yeah, of course you can install windows. You just have to buy your own copy, it doesn't come with it. Wicked.Lucky that, I bought it this morning. I'll buy windows later... Cheers Tomm. Topic Cloooooosed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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