Buying a computer
Jan. 12th, 2004 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothMy desktop isn't fast enough to play DVDs. I think I want to buy a computer. Whole. I'll dual boot between XP and Linux; I guess I want about half a gig of memory and a nice big hard drive (120Gb or more). It doesn't have to be fast, you can't buy one that isn't way fast enough these days. I don't need a monitor; I already owe ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
conflux £50 for a very nice one (or did I ever pay you? If not, are you at Bisexual Underground tomorrow?)
Who do you prefer to buy from? Recommendations so far include
http://www.scan.co.uk/
and of course http://www.dell.co.uk/ (but they insist on throwing in a monitor and speakers and suchlike)
UPDATE: Two people so far have suggested I buy an Apple. No further discussion of this possibility is needed. Thank you. Update to the update - the same goes for PS2s, thanks...
(PS I didn't do what I said I'd do - I went to Alternator. Blame goth peer pressure. Had a damn fine night though!)
conflux £50 for a very nice one (or did I ever pay you? If not, are you at Bisexual Underground tomorrow?)Who do you prefer to buy from? Recommendations so far include
http://www.scan.co.uk/
and of course http://www.dell.co.uk/ (but they insist on throwing in a monitor and speakers and suchlike)
UPDATE: Two people so far have suggested I buy an Apple. No further discussion of this possibility is needed. Thank you. Update to the update - the same goes for PS2s, thanks...
(PS I didn't do what I said I'd do - I went to Alternator. Blame goth peer pressure. Had a damn fine night though!)
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Date: 2004-01-12 11:21 am (UTC)No you never did, thank you for reminding me. Yes I'll be at the BU tomorrow and will be happy to talk computers then or more fun things. I've always found that buying trade price computer bits and building my own machine to be the cheapest way to get a decent machine. I have had to send bits back that didn’t work on a couple of occasions though so check the returns policy. The time consuming bit is always installing all the software. aria.co.uk do some good prices but there are cheaper places although they may not be as good.
Aria
Date: 2004-01-12 11:56 am (UTC)Re: Aria
Date: 2004-01-12 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-13 02:58 am (UTC)