new 'puter

[wendyzski]

My hard drive on my desktop workhorse seems to be dying a slow and noisy death. It may have one more start on it but maybe not. And of course, I am notgood with backups.

So I'm replacing the system. It's an 8yr old E-Machines from Best Buy, and I've replaced or upgraded many of the major parts once already, including the hard drive. Time for a new one.

I scored a pretty good deal from the Dell Outlet - for $359 I'm getting a decent system with quadruple the hard drive space and double the (upgraded) RAM of my current system, plus CDRW and DVD-ROM drives and a modem (which doesn't always come standard any more). I already have the monitor, printer, etc, so getting a retail bundle with all that stuff again would be silly. But most importantly, it still has XP on it. I'm not ready to deal with Vista yet, and have not yet seen any compelling reason to have to learn.

I'm not a huge Dell fan, but for a purchase of this size I wanted a little more reassurance then getting someone's old system off CraigsList - this has a full 1yr warranty w/onsite service.

It ships today, and I should have it by next weekend. So if anyone needs some basic stuff (keyboard, mouse, sound card, etc) for their ghetto-tech system, let me know.

Comments

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. If you need to reload any programs that you got from me, let me know and I'll get them to you.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I think I'm good. There is a copy of Adobe CS that is going unused at the office right now so I'll probably just load that up.

[msimon777.livejournal.com]

Oops. You should have let me know you needed something. My job is selling used computers that have been returned off lease!

Still $359 is a good price and the Dell warranty will help. Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks.