Dunnes Stores PC

WillieDH

In the paper this morning,

Fujitsu Celeron d335, 256mb, 80gb, dvd burner, 17" tft, canon printer €749, not a bad deal !

optiplexgx270

is it a laptop then its not bad not great for a desktop though.

Hobbes

Tesco has something similar for the same'ish price except they throw in a computer desk as well.

This might be better in "Bargin Alerts".

Lydesia

Man thats not a good deal for a desktop.
A mate of mine bought a dell w/o a moniter with better specs then that for 400 quid the other day, lol

Wertz

I found a few dell desktops on the outlet site last night with P4 3.0, 512-1024 RAM, 80-120G HDD and dvd burners for around the €550 mark (thay have €100 off). Adding the 19" ultrasharp tft to them still brought the price in at around €950-1000.

Oh and Celeron's suck. Especially at that price...

Pinhead

That deal is pretty lame, actually. The system (w/o monitor) is only worth the top end of €400.

I am MAN

Yeah that PC isnt much of a bargain.

Someone else suggested the Dell outlet store and I agree this is the way forward there are some lovely machine without monitor for 500.

Peeps1977

u would build a wopper for that money

Pinhead

Well, let's not exaggerate. You'll build a very nice family PC for 700 odd euro. But a whopper?

uberpixie

Pinhead wrote:

Well, let's not exaggerate. You'll build a very nice family PC for 700 odd euro. But a whopper?

Amd 64 3000+ soc 939 (boxed) €149

Gigabyte nforce 4 mobo (sans sli) €103

256mb X 2 sticks of twinmoss pc3200 cas 2.5 €68

westerndig 200gig 7200rpm €103

Club 3d 6600gt PCi-e €185

Hiper psu 350w €26

coolmaster centurion aluminium case €42

Total €696 (including €20 shipping:GLS 3-4 days)

All prices off komplett

Not too shabby a gaming system with a good upgrade path for the money.

As long as you have an os and a monitor lying around :-)

azezil

The thing i'd be concerned about buying from a supermarket would be support... who would you contact? I'd assume you'd have to bring it back to them and they'd have to send it back to manufacturer?

So for something potentially trivial issue that you may be able to resolve with a support agent over the phone you'd have to send it back as I'd imagine they'll have no such support, and no doubt in doing so receive a nasty bill.

kinkstr

azezil wrote:

The thing i'd be concerned about buying from a supermarket would be support... who would you contact? I'd assume you'd have to bring it back to them and they'd have to send it back to manufacturer?

So for something potentially trivial issue that you may be able to resolve with a support agent over the phone you'd have to send it back as I'd imagine they'll have no such support, and no doubt in doing so receive a nasty bill.

I agree, buying a PC from a supermarket would be like buying a car from Mcdonalds. And can you imagine ringing Dunnes and telling them your puter wont start up

MrVestek

WillieDH wrote:

In the paper this morning,

Fujitsu Celeron d335, 256mb, 80gb, dvd burner, 17" tft, canon printer €749, not a bad deal !

No, you're right it's not a bad deal. It's a bloody great fecking terrible deal. 34 Posts eh? An obvious n00b. As other users have stated. You'd easilly build a much better pc for the same price.

Jaeger

azezil wrote:

The thing i'd be concerned about buying from a supermarket would be support... who would you contact? I'd assume you'd have to bring it back to them and they'd have to send it back to manufacturer?

So for something potentially trivial issue that you may be able to resolve with a support agent over the phone you'd have to send it back as I'd imagine they'll have no such support, and no doubt in doing so receive a nasty bill.

I bought from JES and the manufacturer here in Ireland supported it.

I'm assuming the same deal applies to the supermarket. All the manufacturer needs is the machine reference code anyway and they'll be able to deal with it from there.

axer

All prices from Komplett. All parts are cheapest in each category. I wouldnt buy this but am just saying.....

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301029 - Intel Celeron D 320 2.4 GHz Boxed PC533 Socket PGA478, 256KB cache
113517 - TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 256MB CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz)
302330 - MSI 651M-V, SIS651, Socket-478, m-ATX, ATA133, LAN, VGA, Sound, AGP4X
€140.00

305762 - NEC DVD recorder ND-3520A IDE Black OEM
€58.00

116436 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB IDE ATA/100 2MB cache 7200RPM
€55.01

305897 - Chieftec Bravo Micro-ATX Tower Black/Silver w/250W Powersupply
€56.00

120535 - Trust Power Plus Keyboard English, UK, PS/2, Retail
€8.00

301791 - Trust Ami Mouse 250S Optical 3 button mouse, scroll, PS/2
€9.90

100727 - Sony Floppy Drive 3,5" 1,44MB Floppy Drive, Internal
€7.01

112691 - CNET Modem 56k V90/92 Internal PCI with voice/fax
€13.00

306480 - YuSmart 17" LCD 178MP TCO99 Silver 1280x1024, 16ms, D-sub
€214.99

303203 - Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2 English OEM
€85.99

Canon IP1000
Approx €70

Shipping
€10

In home warrenty (Whatever that means)
€??

Total Cost -> €727.90

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Don't flame me for specs, they are cheapest I could find on Komplett.

Stephen

Aldi have a very nice PC from paddy's day onwards (I assume they don't actually open on Paddy's day) for €1100.

(this one: http://www.medion.co.uk/flash/md8386/ )