04-21-2005, 03:46 AM
Also, keep your eye out for sales.
I just ran into a sale at dell.com, today, with free shipping and a bunch of computers $50-$100 off.
I bought my wife a refurbished dimension desktop (2.4 ghz celeron, 40 gb, 256 ram) for $200. Yeah, it's not a high-end computer, but it's more than enough for her needs; it should even play D2 okay. They had others on the same sale, laptops and so forth. (Some laptops were in the $500 range).
Of course, if you buy it and they're not having a sale, you pay more, plus no free shipping.
So it pays to look around and get stuff when it's relatively inexpensive.
(I didn't click quite fast enough, but there was a 1.6 or 1.8, I don't recall which, which was selling for $139. $139! Comes with Windows XP. That means you're paying $50 for the rest of it, total. Alas, I didn't quite click fast enough to get that one).
I just ran into a sale at dell.com, today, with free shipping and a bunch of computers $50-$100 off.
I bought my wife a refurbished dimension desktop (2.4 ghz celeron, 40 gb, 256 ram) for $200. Yeah, it's not a high-end computer, but it's more than enough for her needs; it should even play D2 okay. They had others on the same sale, laptops and so forth. (Some laptops were in the $500 range).
Of course, if you buy it and they're not having a sale, you pay more, plus no free shipping.
So it pays to look around and get stuff when it's relatively inexpensive.
(I didn't click quite fast enough, but there was a 1.6 or 1.8, I don't recall which, which was selling for $139. $139! Comes with Windows XP. That means you're paying $50 for the rest of it, total. Alas, I didn't quite click fast enough to get that one).