2/15 For the Soda Gal:
There's an eMachinese Computer with 1.6 GHz Pentium4, 17" Moniter and
printer free 1 year msn Internet Access for $679.97 after rebates.
There's no contract on anything. Check it out at BestBuy.
\_ Get the Dell 4300S, $499 and free shipping (under Small Business).
\_ Why are you giving her such bad advice. You might as well tell
her to buy a Geo, Hyundai, or Kia.
\_ what would you suggest for that price?
\_ You get what you pay for. Spend your money (even if it means
spending more) on something you'll be happy with. I always
tell people of the BMW/SUV analogy. If I gave you $50K to
spend on either a BMW 3-series or a Ford Explorer, most
good old Americans would evaluate the bang-per-buck and buy
the SUV with money to spare. But the BMW owner would usually
be much happier. I would say stop trying to do a bang-per-buck
analysis (GHz/dollar, MBytes/dollar, etc...) and find something
you'll enjoy. Go to an Apple store and at least try it out.
You might be happier with a Mac than an e-machine. I know my
dad was. After I gave him an "ancient" G4 tower, he now regrets
spending a dime on his top-of-the-line e-machine. He loves the
Mac I gave him, something he never said about a PC.
\_ Don't settle for BMW/SUV. Buy a BMW SUV instead. :-)
\_ BMW doesn't make an SUV, they only make SAV's
\_ You can't just tell someone "get a mac". It matters what
software they're running. There's a ton of stuff that doesn't
"run on a mac". Also it matters what she knows about the two
OS's and if she doesn't know enough then it matters what her
friends know for freebie tech support. "Get a mac" indeed.
\_ I'm not saying "Get a mac". I'm just saying that most
people come to the decision without even trying one to
begin with. I never thought of getting one myself. But
once I did, I found how much better it was. For me, it
didn't matter that nobody else was using it. So what.
I can figure things out myself. I'm sure soda gal is
smart enough to do so too.
\_ maybe soda gal doesn't want to nerd around and just
wants her computer to work?
\_If you actually know how to figure things out for yourself
why didn't you just buy top-of-the-line components and
built the computer yourself? -williamc
\_ I've done that too. I've put together my own machines
from spare parts or -top-of-the-line components
and slap Linux or FreeBSD on there. But I wanted
a laptop that will work nice with portable MP3
players, PDA's, digital cameras, etc... The iBook
matched my needs pretty well. A working word
processor was also nice.
\_Datapoint: 1800+ athlon xp, ecs k7s5a MB, 512 DDR ram, cdrw,dvd
60GB ata100, ati radeon ve, netcard, modem was $800+45 shipping on
Ubid.(no tax) Not top quality components and cheesy case though.
\_ That's not particularly cheap for a system w/o a monitor. --dim
\_ You can build your own system pretty cheaply these days by using
an nForce motherboard (built in Geforce2 + sound). -eric
\_ Don't give any more money to Microsfot please.
\_ Explain? I thought nForce was made by nVidia?
\_ the microsoft comment was indented incorrectly and should
be purged. |