On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:15:10 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

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.

Dell will substitutes XP for Vista. Many folks are doing so.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)