Bought a new computer

[ae708]

My old 'puter was 6 years old. I'd replaced the harddrive, added memory but it started giving me trouble. So Saturday I went to Best Buy and got an emachines with an AMD Athlon 64 3400 processor. Man this thing is fast.....makes my old P3 look like it's crawling. I bought the bundle with flat panel monitor (upgraded to 17"), printer which I didn't need and some other goodies like a USB floppy, etc. The total cost was $1100 with all the other junk I got. I'm getting $300 back in rebates. I remember my 1st PC. Had a 14" monitor, 120 meg harddrive, a whopping 40 mhz 386 processor and cost me $2700!! Man, times have changed for the better where computers are concerned.

 

[Terry H]

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Congrats there Art. I did the same thing a couple of months ago and have been waiting for the rebate. Guess it's time to call them...Chief

 

[Bob_VT]

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Anti virus - anti spyware you have to protect the new baby!!<br /><br />Good luck with it.<br /><br />Bob

 

[Drowned Rat]

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I'm thinking of getting that exact same package ae. I'm glad to hear you're happy with it. They told me at Best Buy that the e-machines are the same thing as Gateway, don't know if it's true or not.

 

[ZmOz]

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The only time I've bought a computer was a long time ago...when $999 for 120mhz, 1.2gb, and a 14" monitor as round as a basketball was an amazing deal. Since then I've always made my own, though I never really make a new one. I just upgrade this one all the time. The one I'm typing on now has had at least 4 different motherboards in it...

 

[RichP1269]

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My last computer was a Sony 3.2 ghz P-4, 180meg hd, 256 meg video card machine running Windows XP Media Center that I bought from UBid.com. It is a factory recertified machine and carries a 6 month factory warranty. New cost was $1800. I paid $750 for the recertified machine.<br /><br />This was not a traditional auction. UBid was the reseller.

 

[LubeDude]

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Originally posted by ZmOz:<br /> I've always made my own,

The only way to really know what you have. I need to buy a bare bones system for the shop here at work. (Case, Motherboard, power supply and CPU. Ill just throw what I have laying around for the rest. Figure I can build a 2 gig machine for about $200.00 or less. Good enough for the shop.

 

[ae708]

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LD.. you'll have a hard time even buying a decent CPU for 200 bucks. Anyway... this is working just fine and I didn't have to waste any time tracking down and buying components. I updated my old one several times. The way things are now it's easy enough to buy one ready made. And yes, the emachines are built by Gateway.

 

[JB]

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My first personal 'puter was a Zorba.<br /><br />Z80 1Mhz processor (8 bit) running CP/M<br />Dual 5 1/4" floppies<br />640K of RAM<br /><br />$2195 in 1982.<br /><br />Not everything costs more than it used to.

 

[saxis]

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I build my own too, only way to go. I haven't upgraded my home PC in a couple years, but the last one I built is still decent enough... Athlong XP 2000+, dual 40gb hdd in RAID 0, 512mb pc2700 and a 64mb geforce3. It works, it's stable and my AMD runs at a suprising 83-95 ferenheit with my water cooling system turned down to low, depending on outside temp and how hard I push it.

 

[bigbad4cyl]

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if you dont have a scsi hard drive your not livin large

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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Some day I'll replace this old Commadore!!!!!!!

 

[heyttown]

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Cant beat the $299 special from Dell......Got it home put $80 memory stick in it,Runs great....Including 17"monitor.

 

[Homerr]

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Store-bought computers definitely got cheaper, but I'd never buy another one. I build all my own now.<br /><br />You probably spend a little more, but you get better quality parts.<br /><br />H.

 

[eeboater]

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Originally posted by JB:<br />Dual 5 1/4" floppies

Awesome!!!!!!

 

[KaGee]

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Originally posted by ZmOz:<br /> I've always made my own...

Ya me too. Way cheaper if you already own the software. <br /><br />Congrats AE!

 

[tcube]

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ae,<br /><br />Bought my first eMachine in 98. On my 4th one now. Wouldn't buy anything else. For the price you can upgrade regularly.

 

[tommays]

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i can remenber when a 4 meg ram cost more than that<br /><br /><br />its tough to beat emachines i have built some boxs and its pretty close<br /><br /> and they stand behind it well and someone you can understand answers the phone and was very good at takeing care of the minor problem i had right down to sending me a new shipping box for free if i had wanted to<br /><br /><br />tommays

 

[ae708]

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Ram used to be so expensive.... 50 bucks a meg. I remember paying, back in the early '90s, around $800 for a 16 meg chip. People were breaking into offices and stealing simms out of computers...leaving the machine there. This is my first emachine, seems pretty good so far. I've built a couple of computers... I used to build and work on cars too...now I just do it the easy way.

 

[LubeDude]

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Originally posted by ae708:<br /> LD.. you'll have a hard time even buying a decent CPU for 200 bucks.

Not true, I have a local computer store right up the street from the shop that can beat this one from Ebay. And, like I said, I have everthing else I need just lying around.<br /><br /> Computer<br /><br />My intention here is not to say you paid too much, only that I can put together one for the shop for about $200.00. It wont hold a candle to yours though.