Computer for $299 w/ Dial Up Subscription To AOL
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You can get a Dell 2400 system for a lower price than the nearly $600 you will ultimately pay. Dell tosses in a free 6 month subscription to aol with every system they sell. Then just call aol to cancel and they will renew your free subscription another 6 months.
If you can't live without AOL and are paying $24 a month for it anyway, (I can't imagine paying $24 a month for dialup) then this system is a good value for a starter PC. Otherwise you can do better on a Dell, at least lately.
Hot or not, this deal isn't for anyone reading these forums. AOL is in $ trouble, really. They've got to find a way to shore up their subscriber base though I don't think this will do it.
AOL + Computer = crap.
The whole deal ends up costing >$600 because you have to maintain a 1 year subscription. Most Dell systems come with a 6 month free AOL virus. Buy a dell, get 6 months of AOL free and switch to a Cable provider who is offering one of those 6 months for $21.00 deals. You still come out cheaper than this deal, you get a faster computer, and you get a faster internet connection for 6 months.
Get a Dell
The whole deal ends up costing >$600 because you have to maintain a 1 year subscription. Most Dell systems come with a 6 month free AOL virus. Buy a dell, get 6 months of AOL free and switch to a Cable provider who is offering one of those 6 months for $21.00 deals. You still come out cheaper than this deal, you get a faster computer, and you get a faster internet connection for 6 months.
Get a Dell
Not a bad deal for the folks though. AOL is probably what they could use best anyway. It works ok and they won't be doing any gaming. Free printer too! Cheapest out of pocket deal around and if you're gonna pay for dial up anyway, what the hey!
Are we gonna see them now displayed everywhere, the way they used to display their AOL CD's ....and also send one in the snail mail...Hopefully I think I will get one computer soon in my snail mail and AOL is asking me to just try it.....for 1000 hrs......
and a method to propagate your personal information to every tom dick and scary spyware company imaginable. ever wonder why they get sued more than popular fast food chains?
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I had been lucky enough to never have had to use AOL, until a buddy of mine needed some help. While I was working on his PC, I was going to hook him up with some USENET action. For, uh, thoughtful discussion... On topical issues and stuff... Not pr0n and free stuff, I swear! But lo-and-behold, I could not find any mention of an AOL news server... So I called the "CS" and she tells me that AOL has no newsgroup access! Boo! Way to make a lame service, ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE! If I remember correctly, AOL was one who ruined the newsgroups around '95 or so...
A bit outdated now, but still a funny quote from a once funny guy, Dennis Miller: The internet is incredible. To think that somewhere across the globe, someone else is listening to the SAME &^$& busy signal that you are!
A bit outdated now, but still a funny quote from a once funny guy, Dennis Miller: The internet is incredible. To think that somewhere across the globe, someone else is listening to the SAME &^$& busy signal that you are!
AOHell is the reason we call September 1993 the September that never ended.
(BTW, today's date is 3748 Sep 1993.
)Plus, let's not forget the fact that most of us here can build a PC based around one of those Fry's Duron/ECS Motherboard combos that would blow that piece of crap PC away for under $299 once you add in rebates. Heck, I even managed to scrape together a low-end Shuttle SFF for a Christmas present for my wife's grandmother for under $350 (SK41G, Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB PC2100 DDR RAM, 80GB WD SE, CDRW) thanks to a few BF hot deals. Sure, that's not counting software or a monitor, but it doesn't require $24 a month for AOL either. And I've got an AGP slot if I need it.
I've got to agree it is a pretty cold deal.
I've got to agree it is a pretty cold deal.
AOHELL or NOT - I was going to post this since $299+ 12x$14(overpay for dial-up, ($24-$10 which is the rate at which dial up can be had without AOL) still comes out to $467, which is not bad for a PC with 17" monitor and printer.
But then Dell 2400s can be had for about the same if you shop around and are prepared to wait for a deal.
WHAT turned me OFF was that this thing is driven by a pesky little celeron 1.7 - slow as a turd in reverse - and i am not even sure they make them anymore.
At least at Dell you would get a PIV for this moeny at least right now...
But then Dell 2400s can be had for about the same if you shop around and are prepared to wait for a deal.
WHAT turned me OFF was that this thing is driven by a pesky little celeron 1.7 - slow as a turd in reverse - and i am not even sure they make them anymore.
At least at Dell you would get a PIV for this moeny at least right now...
i had aol dialup for a few days and couldn't take it...right before getting booted i would hear 'Good Buy'
AOL Office from Sun Technologies is the Star Office suite you can Download for Free for any computer.
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Well, they are good for one thing actually. They have the MS Java VM on them which owns that Sun garbage.
Screw dell. Get a gateway, they use better components and their tech support is a zillion times better. I can actually get thru to a Gateway Techsupport person than I can a dell sales person. Every time I have to deal with dell cust svc it sucks donky schlong. I'm on hold for hours on the speakerphone, and they are less than helpful. I support 250 users, and 95% of my time is spent on dells. My other gripe with dell is their systems are slow as a constipated terd. We have 2ghz systems that crawl compared to a 1.4 ghz gateway. I can't beleive people actually buy dells.....to each idiot their own I guess. I'm speaking on behalf of IT computing where it is impossible for an individual to persuade a company to let them build the computers..
Plus, let's not forget about the famous Dell power supply connectors. Almost as bad as IBM in the bad old days of Microchannel. You know a company has grown a bit too big for its britches when it suddenly decides ATX specifications suddenly don't apply to them anymore.
I just wish both Dell and Gateway would give AMD some love. Hopefully the A64 (and Opteron on the server and workstation side) will turn that around soon.
If they stopped making and sending those damn aluminum can 1000hr CD's they'll be in better shape in terms of $$$. Those things are annoying. And there are LOTS of them. They are everywhere!!!
Once they put 2 of those things inside my mailbox (i live in an apartment) and couldn't fit anymore mails. I had to go to the post office to get the rest of the mail.
I haven't payed for AOL in years, and I still have it, thanks to dell and AOL's CSRs that keep giving me free months after I call to cancel.
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