The Most Expensive Computer You ever bought?

[CvAgent]

The Most Expensive Computer You ever bought?
Mine is a laptop as I normally build my own machines:

Dell Inspirion 8000:
P3-850
196 megs of ram
32 meg Video
20 Gig Hdisk + 10 gig Hdisk
8x Cdrw
14.1 LCD
Windows ME

Total of $2400

 

[pdiddy]

dell dimension 4100

 

[Mister T]

back in 95'

I was pimping with a P133 and a 17 inch monitor.
Hooked up fat. 32mb RAM, Matrox Millenium w/4m WRAM.
4X CD-ROM 3 disc changer.

all the girlies were sweating it.

cost me 4,095

 

[Wingnut]

I'm really sorry to hear that! At least it was a Dell! I've never really purchased a name brand PC except for maybe a Tandy 1000 back in the early 90's.

 

[Passions]

$3,000 got me a Compaq P-166, Sony 17', HP 820cse printer.

 

[CvAgent]

Well it was a laptop, granted they are kinda of hard to bulild yourself

 

[KameLeon]

In 1996:

Sony VAIO PCV-70:

Pentium 166mhz Processor
2.1gb HD
32MB Edo RAM
2mb ATI Vid Card


Cost me $3,500!

 

[Shuxclams]

Compaq Proliant 5500R, well I bought it at an auction but the thing is worth buckets!









SHUX

 

[snut]

performa 640-1800 bucks
back in 1994 i think

 

[bonk102]

hte compaq i'm on now, $900 with 21" monitor this september

550 athlon
64 meg ram
8x DVD ROM
4x CD-RW
30 gig HD

 

[dabuddha]

last one i remember buying from someone was around $2400
IBM XT 8 mhz
30 meg hdd
640k memory
EGA Video Card (can't remember which kind)
5 1/4 360k floppy drive
no sound card

i had a commodore 64 before that but i don't remember how much we paid for it.

 

[hclarkjr]

i bought a packard bell with an intel DX66 for $1500 in 1995. ouch!!!!!

 

[Lars]

486 DX33 in 1990/91 for too much, lol
everything was in black. loved it.

 

[Moz]

Amstrad 286 for around 2.5K back sometime in the stone age

 

[Zucchini]

2k bought me a
486dx 2 66mhz with 4mb system ram :Q - now have 384,its just frightning thinking back.. so @%# scary
420mb conner hd
15" sony sf15
s3 virge something i think
sb16mcd
2x panasonic cdrom
i can't remember much else,its too depressing

and 2k for my superslim pro sony laptop
650mhz p3, 10/100mb/s network connector, 56k, 128mb, 12gb


and a ton slowly building upgrading from cyrix 166mmx, p1 166mmx, k6-2 400,p2 400, c2 850.

 

[dc]

compaq in 95. =(

pentium100
16mb ram (that was alot back then =)
1 gig hd
4x cdrom
1mb cirrus logic graphics
15" sony sf monitor
bought it the day windows 95 came out, august 24 1995

total: $3000 freakin dollars!:|:|:|:|:|

 

[CarpeDeo]

Wow- I'm glad I've never bought a full system and have only upgraded throughout the years. My T-Bird 1.1 ghz should be coming in 3 days! Oh, but admist all my upgrading, I did once blow up (short-circuit) the motherboard for a 486 slc-2 66. It was time for a pentium anyways so I did myself a favor (though my dad got pretty mad).

 

[Czar]

P90
16mb Ram
1gb HD
Diamond stealth video card
15" Channel monitor
ESS soundcard
4x CDROM

payd 216.000 ikr for it, its about $2500 now

 

[Whitedog]

I've only bought one complete system. My first one. It was an SX2-50 IBM. I think it was $1,495 at Walmart.

I've just been buying pieces since.

THOUGH, I remember the MOST Expensive Upgrade/system I did....

In 1996, I placed this order:
I bought a P54c 166mhz chip - $749
4 - 8meg SIMMS @ $140 each - $560
ASUS Motherboard - $210
Diamond Stealth 3200 2meg Vid card - $275
$1794

I added that to the system I already had bought a few months before:
AT case ($80)
3.2 gig Fireball ($325)
8x CDROM ($150)
SB AWE32 sound ($150)
28.8 supra modem ($200)
17" monitor ($600)

I think all that stuff had costs me around $1,500

So I was sitting on a $3,300 system.

I did have the FASTEST System in my LAN gaming group. :Q

 

[pdo]

a Gateway PII-300 in 1997 for $2,500

 

[dirkdaring]

Wow noone here from the Apple IIe days? Woo those were expensive. And we bought ours with a color monitor. It was like 4 grand.

 

[warcleric]

Sony Vaio GT1 $3500

 

[ratkil]

1st PC from MicroProfessionals 486DX-33, 4 Meg Ram (they filled 4 slots with 1 meg simms the bas**ds), 212 Meg H.D., 14inch monitor, and no cd drive. $1507 in 1991

 

[Windogg]

IBM XT

4.77Mhz 8088 Processor
256K Memory + 128K Memory (384K Total)
10MB Hard Drive
360K 5.25" Floppy
CGA Graphics
Color Monitor
88(?) Keyboard
Epson Daisy Wheel Printer
IBM DOS 1.1

I think it was close to $4,000 at the time. Believe it or not it's still in use.

 

[layne151]

Ok anyone rember the first Pentium?

oh yea p-60 baby socket 4, no way to upgrade!
1994
purchased from (then)gateway 2000 for~ $3000
p-60
2x cdrom
8 mb ram
540mb harddrive
and a cutting edge ENSONIQ soundcard (isa)

here is the cool thing this baby is still rocking with all original parts (bumped memory upto 64mb) use it for my quiken financial stuff runs windows 95, 24 -7

p.s. i overclocked it 10% to p-66 woo hoo smoking!!!!!!