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Default OT - New PC in da house..

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:47:15 -0400, "D-unit"
wrote:

Actually we needed another workstation
here at work rather quickly ( for my new replacement)
Im keeping a desk and my pc here for the time being.
I went up to the TigerDirect store in North Raleigh
Sunday to see what they had.

I got:

Acer Veriton M410
Windoze Xp Pro SPII
1GB DDRII
AMD Sempron 3800+
160GB SATA
Built in video/LAN/sound

Brand new, not a refurb.


$379.00 plus tax.

After 2 hours of downloading/installing "updates"
...She works fine.

db


Dell has a pretty good deal this month on an Intel Core 2 Quad
Processor Q6600 (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB)

http://tinyurl.com/5ju6bp

Should be blazing fast with a 4 way multi processor chip and a lot of
cache memory. Unfortunately it comes with Vista but should be fast
enough to run it OK if your applications work.