Dell Dimension 8200 for $50/month?

[jonolo]

Hi all.

I live in Sweden, and here we have something called Hem-PC (free translation: Home-PC) This means that companies can offer PCs to their employees with tax reduction. My father has now been offered this, and he is wondering if I am interested to take the computer instead of him.

The configuration is:
Intel P4 1.8 (i850)
1024 Mb RDRAM
100Gb HD
GeForce 3 Ti 500
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Philips DVDRW208 DVD+RW Burner
3 ports IEEE1394
Harman Kardon HK-695 MNG
Internal v.90
Internal 10/100mbits Ethernet
Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical
MS Windows XP Pro
MS Office XP Pro

For all this I have to pay about $48/month (after tax reduction) in 30 months. (approx. $1500 in total)

Ok, so is it worth it? I am very close to taking the deal... Please, any comments appreciated...

//
Jonas Olofsson

 

[John]

If you must finance it, then it is a good buy. However 2.5yrs is a LONG time to pay on a computer.

 

[ElFenix]

actually whether financing is a good deal depends on what the rate is. gotta wonder how much it would be if all the money was up front. its a really nice machine, should fly at quake or rtcw. it does seem like you're getting a pretty steep discount.

 

[jonolo]

Hmm, not sure what you guys mean by finance it... But here how it goes...

The company draw the monthly sum on my fathers paycheck every month before taxes. And as we in Sweden have quite high taxes (33%) it means that the government loses tax incomes, and the computer becomes cheaper. So I have to pay my father $48/month... that is it!!!

I was first going to build my on, as I get it as I want... But this deal means I pay about $1500 for a $4500 computer (Swedish prices)

Btw, anyone know what kind of brand for the geforce3 card Dell is using?

//
Jonas O

 

[ElFenix]

paying $48 per month instead of all the money up front is financing (well, not quite. technically financing is getting a loan to pay for something then paying down the loan.)


is it a lease? i.e. at the end of the 30 months do you get to keep the computer or not?

 

[jonolo]

You can choose...

Either send it back, or buy it for usually a very nice price, the last computer he bought for $150 after the lease time.

Usually the company do not want the PC back after 2.5 yrs, so they give you a good price, because getting 30000 used pc back isn't an option

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Jonas O

 

[ElFenix]

so its a lease with option to buy... and the option is a rather low price...

there a monitor with that?

 

[ElFenix]

is that 1024 megabits or megabytes of ram you have there (its sorta important, theres like a $700 price difference)

why is the quietkey keyboard not compatible with the turtle beach sound card? thats messed up... stupid dell website. wonder if you called in the order if they would say that...

 

[jonolo]

No, there is an option to get a monitor with it...

Dell 19" Trinitron P991 for approx $7/month
Dell 21" Trinitron P110 for approx $12/month

and yes, sort of a lease with option to buy...

Since I am a big Home Theater fan, I am very intrested in the DVD burner...

Hmm, it is 1024 megabytes of RDRAM...

//
Jonas O

 

[ElFenix]

i say jump on it.

 

[LanEvoVI]

I say get it also. That's a great price for a Dell machine with those specs.

 

[zzzz]

good price.