[Technophobe]

• PC Base Unit
• 19" Widescreen PC Monitor
• Wireless keyboard mouse and sender
• Recovery CD
• Tiscali Broadband CD
• Video Cable
• 2 x Kettle leads
• Quick Start Guide.

• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E4400 Dual Core Processor(2.0GHz,2MB Cache,800MHz) #
• Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Edition
• Digital & Analogue TV Tuner PCI Card
• New MESH Mini-Tower Micro ATX Case +300W PSU
• 1GB DDR2 Memory - 667MHz (2x512MB)
• 500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
• LightScribe Super Format 18x Dual Layer DVD Writer +R/-R/RW/RAM
• 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT - DVI, HDTV, TV-Out
• 19" Widescreen LCD TFT Display with internal speakers
• 5.1 High Definition onboard sound card - 6 Channel Cinema sound
• Logitech Cordless Keyboard & Cordless Optical Mouse
• Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + 60 Days Microsoft Office Trial
• Free Cyberlink Video Editing Suite - 7 titles (oem)
• 6x USB 2.0 Ports
• 2x IEEE1394 Firewire (onboard)
• 1x Gigabit LAN (onboard)
• Multi-format Memory Card Reader
• Silver - 1 Year On Site Service - UK Mainland Only (Home Service)

[alex]

Wow, I mean: WOW!!

Add Mesh's lousy warranty and supremely dire customer service to that and it'll be the best 600 quid you've thrown down the loo.



On a serious note, it's not a bad deal. But I bet (haven't looked) you could build it cheaper.

[mr_miller]

If you're going down the pre-built route...

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...hs&~ck=expbuy3

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6550 processor (2.33GHz) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium - English edit
MEMORY 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024] edit
HARD DRIVE 320GB (7200rpm) Serial ATA/100 Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst™ cache edit
GRAPHICS CARD 256MB ATI® Radeon™ HD 2600 XT graphics card edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16x DVD +/- RW Drive edit

392.74 when you take the monitor off, it knocks £170 from the price, thats a lot for a 19" monitor. and buy one from ebuyer, you could probably get a decent-ish 22" ws for that money. You'll get a better graphics card, more memory and a much better CPU. There is a bit less storage but thats a fairly cheap upgrade it you ever need more.

[mr_miller]

if you aren't going to game, have a look at the 530s. You should be able to get a C2D 3.00ghz based machine for about 420 without a monitor and with similar specs to the previous post. The graphics card it ships with isn't that good; I expect it uses the normal 305W dell psu so you could run a 2600XT or 8600GT if the case will take it but that will be about it as it doesn't have a 6pin power.

[skinnyman9000]

Dont use Dell. Have a go at building your own, or if you're not up for it then try somewhere like www.pcspecialist.co.uk, they will build you one cheaper than Dell, and it'll be better too.

[mr_miller]

Better yes, cheaper no. The cheapest they will build a 3ghz C2D system is about 750 all in, against the 420 dell will build it for.

[mrdaveyk]

basically the same as i bought when vista first came out, except they gave me a 7600gs card which didnt help, ive had to mod mine alot so in total its cost me about 800 in different parts more ram etc etc that 800 also includes the package of course heheh

[Thunderer]

To know whether you are paying much or not, you should find a ready bundle pc and then try and build it yourself by buying parts and see which is cheaper.

Also for 600 you could buy quite a few good things. Do not buy the first one you see, always try and see better.

Laslty, you should see for what purpose the PC is going to be, i.e. home, gaming, multimedis, etc... Each option means different price levels since they need different parts to be albe to satisfy the buyer.

From where you could buy: Scan, PC World, Curry's, etc... They all offer good deals and you could find yourself a bargain.

Hope this helped.