I am thinking of buying a new PC. Not sure whether to have one built or get a ready made from PC World, Time etc.

If anyone has any recommended sites or advice it would be appreciated.

FORGET THE HELL OUT OF "PC WORLD" .... Dell have the best offers and great back up. MUCH MUCH MUCH more better than PC world.

Dell are almost giving them away at the moment

Just have to say it again..... "PC world" I would never buy a computer from them or Dixons etc (Same company) I have witnessed so many unhappy customers going mad trying to sort problems out."

I have just been quoted £935 for the following;
Athlon XP2400
100GB Hard Drive
512 MB DDR ram
64 mb Ge Force 2 Graphics
15" TFT
6 in 1 card reader
4xUSB
2XFirewire
56k Modem
3yr RTB warrenty (local firm so not a problem)
Keyboard & Mouse

Do you think this represents good value?

Tony

Yeah ... if you're ever thinking of buying anything from PC World just go in there any Saturday and watch the poor feckers in the "customer service" queue holding their broken computers and watching the helpless staff attempting to deal with problems they appear unqualified to deal with. I queued there once (returning a minor peripheral) and waited for ages while one of the two staff on duty waited on hold for someone on a manufacturer's helpdesk to answer his question ... :rolleyes: doh!

[Edited by Father Jack Hackett - 2/19/2003 8:20:07 PM]

If using it for any gaming, be very, very careful of the TFT screen, as only a very small percentage can display games properly, without getting all pastely-swirly on you when playing fast moving games. I would deffo say get a different vga card too.

Cheers,

Nick :)

£935, no, try mesh computers instead... the graphics card is shocking for a £935 machine...

Cant believe with all the advertising Dell are doing at the moment .They are not your first choice. You can even haggle with them..

I agree, we get all our work PC's from Dell. Good spec and good price. The only thing that would put ME off buying one for home would be the proprietry PSU, CASE, MOBO and fans.....

If you're not gonna upgrade it MOBO wise in the future then buy dell...

I wouldn't go for a Dell at home either.

I'd look at Mesh or Evesham if you weren't comfortable building something yourself.

Just looked at the Mesh site, good prices and spec. I was posting this on behalf of a friend, I now gutted as he will have better spec than me.
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What kind of latitude ;) do Dell's phone sales people have when you negotiate with them?

What is the technique?

I am looking at getting a laptop and the Inspiron 8200 2.4Ghz looks nice. (This is if work requirements and Wife don't permit me to get a delicious G4 Powerbook ...)

look on dells clerence page its where all the excess machines are sold off we got a p4 2400 1 gig of ram gforce 4 ti 4600 80 gig hd and cdrw for 630+ vat