How is price for basic system

[Mirko]

Right now she have 433MHz celeron so anything would be better. She dont play video game only outlook, quicken, excel type softwares. Outlook take probably 45 second to load right now it to slow.

Her job is offering this for employee, the system will be HP.

* Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition with SP2
* AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3200+ operating at 2.2GHz
* 512MB DDR-400MHz SDRAM
* 160GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
* Double Layer 16X DVD +/-R/RW drive
* 9 in 1 Card Reader, 3 USB, 1 Firewires, + Front Audio Ports
* Integrated SIS Mirage2 Graphic
* Integrated 5.1 Capable Sound w/ Front Audio ports
* Compaq Keyboard & Scroller Mouse
* Microsoft(R) Office Basic Edition

Price: $400
That is all informations listed from flyers that they get.

I look at dell and emachine and this seem better then what they give for same price.

 

[Leros]

Thats a nice system. Upgrade to 1Gb of ram, if its cheap.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Wow, that's pretty nice for a $400 pre-built.

That processor is worth almost $200 on its own... and Windows is another $80-ish. The rest of the system will easily take up the rest of the cost for individually priced parts.

I know several people here have had good luck with refurb dell computers (there's a big thread in Hot Deals about it), but this seems pretty nice for a new system.