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Very Cheap Dell XP PC

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    #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,082 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Handy but a couple of things:
    * 512MB RAM - Not ideal for XP.
    * CD Drive - not even a DVD drive?
    * 40GB hard drive - not terriffic

    I guess it's cheap but not too great IMO.

    --> not knocking your BA .. just saying :)


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    #3
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Specs look kinda old though.. suppose it would do for the ol pair for internet browsing an i guess it doens't come with a monitor


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    #4
    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭dingding


    Probably a 5 year old PC that some company dumped. The spec is even very low for this model when it was new.

    You will probably have hard disk trouble as they would be 5-6 years old.


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    #5
    Rsaeire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    It's one thing if it was a new PC with new components, but it is clearly some company's old refuse that has found its way onto Pixmania. I'd say I'm surprised that it even found its way onto that site, but Pixmania never surprise me anymore.


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    #6
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    Small form factor PC, might make a nice cheap HTPC for the TV, for watching DVDs or video files. Would probably need a graphics card though for TV out. And it would be important to know the model - there were GX270s and GX280 that had used bad batches of capacitors on the motherboards. GX260s were grand though, I'm still using a few right now, but I got them for nothing.


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    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    There a few of those Dell Computers on the pixmania site. Better specced comps available on www.computerbargains.co.uk


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    #8
    Oracle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Oracle


    Yeah I really like these. It's an old, standard spec Optiplex. These babies are built like tanks and can go on for years. It's a good price, although you might find one for free in your local recycling centre. The CD drive makes it perfect to load your favourite Linux, that will work fine with this low spec PC. These are also fairly quite, with small footprint, so ideal for home/file server, or media player/storage.


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    #9
    jenno86
    Registered Users Posts: 2,634 ✭✭✭jenno86


    killswitch wrote: »
    http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/3237261/art/dell/optiplex-desktop-computer.html

    Comes to €113 with shipping...not too bad at all

    Theat isn't cheap! You should check out Littlewoods! They have had some unreal deals as of late! :pac:


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    #10
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Thats a terrible deal, for 113 last year I got me a Dell Vostro 200 with a 2.4GHz Pentium Dual core(Aka core2 duo with 2mb less cache), 2GB of memory and a 250GB hdd and it was new.


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    dazberry
    Registered Users Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭dazberry


    * 512MB RAM - Not ideal for XP (One of two slots).
    * CD Drive - not even a DVD drive? (laptop drive)
    * 40GB hard drive - not terriffic (slow slow slow)

    Its a slimline form factor, so you don't have a lot of options if you need to upgrade it. We "dumped" a couple of hundred recently (260, 270 and 280s AFAIK), and tbh I would think them best avoided. I suffered one for 5 years as a development machine (miserable bankers :D) - my EEEbox is faster.

    D.


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    #12
    roadwars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭roadwars


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Thats a terrible deal, for 113 last year I got me a Dell Vostro 200 with a 2.4GHz Pentium Dual core(Aka core2 duo with 2mb less cache), 2GB of memory and a 250GB hdd and it was new.

    Where did you get that at that price?


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    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    roadwars wrote: »
    Where did you get that at that price?
    Direct from Dell, Dell.ie


    Special offer.


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    #14
    mink_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    aaaarrrggggghhhhhh


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    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,331 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    dazberry wrote: »
    Its a slimline form factor, so you don't have a lot of options if you need to upgrade it. We "dumped" a couple of hundred recently (260, 270 and 280s AFAIK), and tbh I would think them best avoided. I suffered one for 5 years as a development machine (miserable bankers :D) - my EEEbox is faster.

    D.
    My media center is an ex bank 270. Needs more ram but lovely and quiet. Fine for that but not much opportunity to upgrade.


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    snappieT
    Registered Users Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    polyfusion wrote: »
    might make a nice cheap HTPC for the TV, for watching DVDs or video files.
    Not going to be decoding anything too intense on those specs. Certainly nothing HD.


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    #17
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,766 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Rsaeire wrote: »
    It's one thing if it was a new PC with new components, but it is clearly some company's old refuse that has found its way onto Pixmania. I'd say I'm surprised that it even found its way onto that site, but Pixmania never surprise me anymore.

    It's not being sold "by Pixmania" but by a Market Seller through them

    "Used product sold by CompuZone"


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    ToxicPaddy
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,764 Mod ✭✭✭✭ToxicPaddy


    Jeez I had 20 of these for €50 a pop for sale a while back.. should have upped the price.. :D


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