The Gateway Model 500S, tower case, 2.4 P4, 512 meg RAM, 80 gig Hdd, 3.5" floppy, their standard offering of 16x/48x DVD ROM and 48x24x48x CD-RW, Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Works 2003 Suite, Norton Anti Virus 90 day trial, NVidia 128 Meg Ti 4200, standard mouse/keyboard, Soundblaster Audigy, no speakers, integrated ethernet card, and 1 year parts and labour warranty = $1409. Free shipping. + Some free stuff too.<br><br>You could drop the price a bit by deleting one of the optical drives, but it's such a sweet setup and deal the way it is. (The soundcard is a necessity to me.)<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Scify</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, I know your friend doesn't like Dell's, but I'm sure you could configure a 4550 similarly to this Gateway, for around the same money. According to Consumers Union, both Dell and Gateway are tied in terms of customer service and satisfaction. The Dell's scored higher in reliability however.<br><br>I strongly recommend one or the other of these brands. You cannot go wrong that way. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Couldn't resist going to have a look:<br><br>Dell 4550: 2.4 P4, 512 meg RAM, no monitor, 60 gig drive, 128 meg Radeon 9700 TX, floppy drive, Windows XP Home, Wordperfect, 2 button scroll mouse, standard keyboard, integrated ethernet card, soundblaster live 5.1, HK 206 speakers, 16X DVD, Free 40x10x40x CD-RW, McAfee 90 day trial, 1 year at home parts and labour warranty, a whole bunch of free software, (jukebox, digital photo, income tax) = $1118 - $50 online discount = $1068 . Sweeeeeet!! That price includes $39 for a Belkin Surge station powerstrip, which may be a mandatory purchase. If you can figure out how to delete it, that's $1029. FREE SHIPPING! <br><br>If anyone has any coupon codes for Scify, please speak up! It looks like the DELL is the way better purchase! Go for it Scify! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>One more thing: The new Dell cases are very easy to open. It's simple to add another hard drive later. The manual shows clearly how to do it. Adding more RAM later is even easier! These two upgrades are all you should ever need in the future, for the life of the computer. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>A faster P4 will drop in easily too, say in 5 years time when the price of the 3.06 HT has dropped way down. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub44.ezboard.com/bschwantzsredeemerarenaserver.showUserPublicProfile?gid=anamelessentity@schwantzsredeemerarenaserver>a nameless entity</A> at: 2/21/03 7:45:48 pm<br></i>
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