04-03-2005, 09:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-03-2005, 10:03 PM by SetBuilder.)
Chaerophon,Apr 3 2005, 12:58 PM Wrote:Unless Alram's son is going into comuputing science, I think that most people here are going to call BS on that one. As we speak, I'm typing on the dell laptop that I've had for the last two years of my college experience. PII 266, 128 Megs RAM, Wireless 56k, Office 2000, EZ Trust Firewall and Anti-Virus, Stopzilla, AdAware, Spybot, and Firefox. Cripes, my brother is on only a slightly faster computer, and he's successfully running all of his AutoCAD stuff for an architecture degree.
I don't get viruses, I do get e-mail and google. I get A's. This cost... just over 300 bucks Canadian at the time (two and a half years ago). I think that a budget of 750 American will do Alram just fine.
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Considering Dell has NEVER sold a notebook for $250 US, and a PII 266 is a bit more than 2 years old, I'd say that I'd have to call BS on that, too.
So, essentially, you're telling me you got a good deal on E-Bay. Congratulations. Try installing XP pro and Office 2K3. Try running excel or ppt.
When it blue screens, call me up, I'll hook you up with a good deal on something that's a bit less than 7 years old. ;)
Oh, and Wireless 56K? Post a link to where you can get that. Are you talking maybe of a GPRS card, with cellphone-style service that costs $30-$50 a month maybe?
Oh, and one last thing, I WORK at Dell. Don't try telling me I don't know our pricing, as well as the dates we sold what you have.
Also, I ran a desktop comparable to the specs you listed. About 7 years ago. Still have it, in fact. Takes about 4 minutes just to boot up on XP Pro. Except it has 512MB of RAM. And Excel pushes it to it's limits. No viruses, no spyware. Even with the 64MB video card (which I'm sure yours does not have, as the 64MB flavor didn't exist at that point) it's still worthless for any games beyond the original Diablo.
'S ok though, you seem to know what you're talking about.