jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon May 5 06:16:33 CDT 2008
Bob, You need to look for the specials from Dell, as they come and go, and as you can see the difference can be hundreds of dollars. I read on one of my many newsletters that if you buy the special "as is" Dell actually takes a loss. They price these things to get you to the web page, expecting you to bump up the processor, memory, hard disk etc. Once you do they start making a profit. The key is to not pay them for any hardware upgrade you don't absolutely have to. As an example the memory you can often come back later and add for much less money than they charge you. Adding a second hard drive from Newegg is cheaper than adding one from them etc. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Bob Geldart wrote: > John, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I was going to go down to the local Best > Buy and check things out, but I'm going to look further into your > recommendation. My son got a Dell online a couple of years ago. > > Thanks again > > At 5/4/2008 08:57 PM, jwcolby wrote: >> You can get amazing machines from DELL for not very much money. You >> didn't specify how much you were willing to pay for this new machine, >> nor how powerful it needed to be. Entry level these days is a dual core >> with a gig of RAM. By upping the CPU a little bit and adding another >> gig of ram you can get a pretty powerful system for not much money. >> >> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_dotw_dimen?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml >> >> Any of these systems is a good deal, depending on what you need. IIWM I >> would go with the quad core and make one change to get a vista upgrade. >> Vista business or ultimate and you have a pretty tight system. That >> should keep you through another 5 years. >> >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> >> Bob Geldart wrote: >>> My 5-year old Compaq Presario seems to be getting a little slow (or >>> my patience flagging), and I've been looking longingly at getting a >>> new machine that would have a more memory and processing speed. >>> Something that would deal with scanning a lot of my photos from >>> slides and negative, and some audio files. >>> >>> Soliciting your advice-- >>> >>> I have MSOffice 2003 with Access. Since I retired a few years ago and >>> no longer developing in Access, I'm not in a rush to pay for an >>> Office upgrade, nor do I have the need, but I have some databases >>> that I still like to play with. Will Access 2003 still perform on >>> Vista? Will I have any problems? >>> >>> Thanks for your thoughts >>> >>> >>> >>> Bob Geldart BGeldart at verizon.net >>> Maynard, MA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > Bob Geldart BGeldart at verizon.net > Maynard, MA > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >