Thoughts on DELL ?
02-15-2005, 05:26 PM
#11
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I would much rather support a local or even Canadian company. If you asked me two years ago, I would say I would never own a Dell and they are junk prefabs (I always had a custom system). However, I've ran into some Dell specials that a guy could have made money from selling the parts. Some specials you can't even come close to sourcing parts for the price, nevermind a legal copy of Winblows and customer support. I now own two Dells and been mostly happy with them. I also got three more for my family and no complaints (plus I can shrug off customer support instead of me doing it!)
02-15-2005, 05:56 PM
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02-15-2005, 06:00 PM
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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The thing I love, they send out replacements without need credit cards... boom 2-3 business days there's ur replacement... Hp does the credit card hold thing but it never appears on ur credit card unless you ship the defective unit back late.. and if u do get charged there pretty quick to reverse it for ya.
02-15-2005, 06:17 PM
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You can upgrade them very easy.... Mine can be upgraded to the prescott cpu like 4 gig of ram... However if you want bigger power supply you may have to order direct from Dell on that because of the case, but there nice no tools required except to take the motherboard off the pc.. I use mine for gamming and works great, NFS Underground 1,2, Sims 2 almost any game I have had runs perfect on this system no hickups at all.. Doom 3 smooth like butter... but I also have Radeon 9800 Pro as well to help that.. Just make sure whatver you get, make sure u get external video card if you plain to game if not then shared onboard is fine and you can change the amount of ram normally used to the video card so it goes back to the system.
02-15-2005, 07:23 PM
#17
i don't see why they're not upgradable. I have people calling in all the time wanting various part #'s so they can upgrade this and that.
If you're gonna buy a pc, do yourself a favor and grab some of the new technology like pci-express, don't bother spending 400 on an agp video card.
And in rebuttle to whoever said something about buying from a canadian company.....it's called Dell Canada for a reason.
If you're gonna buy a pc, do yourself a favor and grab some of the new technology like pci-express, don't bother spending 400 on an agp video card.
And in rebuttle to whoever said something about buying from a canadian company.....it's called Dell Canada for a reason.
02-15-2005, 07:59 PM
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www.dell.ca/dellepp/
You can configure the 4700 for $544.55 with free shipping.
Dell Dimension 4700 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor 520 with HT Technology (2.80GHz, 800 FSB)
CP288R - [ 221-5254 ]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
WHXP - [ 412-0688 ] [ 412-0721 ] [ 412-0749 ] [ 420-4834 ] [ 420-4927 ] [ 463-2282 ]
Memory: 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M)
512M4 - [ 311-3621 ]
Keyboard: Dell Quietkey® Keyboard
QK - [ 310-1582 ]
Monitor: VIDEO READY W/O MONITOR
NMP - [ 463-5126 ]
Video Cards: Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
IV - [ 320-3872 ]
Hard Drive: 40GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
40S - [ 341-0881 ]
Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices: 3.5 in Floppy Drive
FD - [ 340-8860 ]
Mouse: Dell Optical USB Mouse
OM - [ 310-4037 ]
Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
IN - [ 430-0412 ]
Modem: 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
DFAX - [ 313-2279 ]
Document Management: Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0
AAREAD - [ 412-0705 ]
CD or DVD Drive: Dual Drives: 48x CD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability
CD16DVR - [ 313-2993 ] [ 420-5079 ]
Sound Card: Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio
IS - [ 313-2758 ]
Speakers: Dell A215 Speakers
ADA215 - [ 313-1874 ]
Productivity Software: No Software Package
NOSW - [ 412-0379 ]
Security Software: Norton Internet Security™, 90 day trial
NIS90 - [ 412-0757 ]
Digital Music: Dell Jukebox - easy-to-use music player and CD burning software
MMBASE - [ 412-0741 ]
Digital Photography: Paint Shop™ Pro® Trial plus Photo Album™ Starter Edition
DPS - [ 412-0521 ]
Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support
W111OS - [ 950-1290 ] [ 950-9797 ]
Additional Options: Dimension Monitor uplift
[ NM ]
Total Price* $544.55
You can configure the 4700 for $544.55 with free shipping.
Dell Dimension 4700 Series: Pentium® 4 Processor 520 with HT Technology (2.80GHz, 800 FSB)
CP288R - [ 221-5254 ]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
WHXP - [ 412-0688 ] [ 412-0721 ] [ 412-0749 ] [ 420-4834 ] [ 420-4927 ] [ 463-2282 ]
Memory: 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M)
512M4 - [ 311-3621 ]
Keyboard: Dell Quietkey® Keyboard
QK - [ 310-1582 ]
Monitor: VIDEO READY W/O MONITOR
NMP - [ 463-5126 ]
Video Cards: Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
IV - [ 320-3872 ]
Hard Drive: 40GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
40S - [ 341-0881 ]
Floppy Drive and Additional Storage Devices: 3.5 in Floppy Drive
FD - [ 340-8860 ]
Mouse: Dell Optical USB Mouse
OM - [ 310-4037 ]
Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 10/100 Ethernet
IN - [ 430-0412 ]
Modem: 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
DFAX - [ 313-2279 ]
Document Management: Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0
AAREAD - [ 412-0705 ]
CD or DVD Drive: Dual Drives: 48x CD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability
CD16DVR - [ 313-2993 ] [ 420-5079 ]
Sound Card: Integrated 5.1 Channel Audio
IS - [ 313-2758 ]
Speakers: Dell A215 Speakers
ADA215 - [ 313-1874 ]
Productivity Software: No Software Package
NOSW - [ 412-0379 ]
Security Software: Norton Internet Security™, 90 day trial
NIS90 - [ 412-0757 ]
Digital Music: Dell Jukebox - easy-to-use music player and CD burning software
MMBASE - [ 412-0741 ]
Digital Photography: Paint Shop™ Pro® Trial plus Photo Album™ Starter Edition
DPS - [ 412-0521 ]
Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support
W111OS - [ 950-1290 ] [ 950-9797 ]
Additional Options: Dimension Monitor uplift
[ NM ]
Total Price* $544.55
02-15-2005, 10:34 PM
#20
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 708
ive jsut never had good experiences with dell machines. i prefer to use products and build my own. my g/f dell is a pos and i cant even put an agp video card in it and its a p4 1.8 .. i mean no AGP!!
that to me = no way of upgrading...
that to me = no way of upgrading...
