WTH...Sony's new P4 1.7GHz PC has a DVD-RW drive !!!!!!!!!

[JackBurton]

The whole PC costs $2500! Here are the specs:

Pentium 4 1.70 GHz
80GB HD
128MB of PC800 RDRAM
DVD-RW drive

Sh!t, the DVD-RW drive is about $1000+ just for the drive. With this considered and a P4 1.7GHz chip thrown in, $2500 doesn't seem like a bad deal at all! Here is the link to Sony's page.

I just want to know where I can get one of these DVD-RW drives at a good price.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

so does one of the new mac g4's

edit: rw, mah bad. neato cheeto someone get me a spicy dorrito.

 

[JackBurton]

MACs use DVD-R. Also, this is the first PC I've see with a DVD-RW drive in it and it is only $2500! I'd expect it to be more around the $3500+ mark.

 

[Oyeve]

Compaq has a model also.

 

[fkloster]

Those DVD-RW drives are spendy. Maybe around $955?

 

[JackBurton]

Ya fkloster, I've looked around and $900-1000+ is the going rate for one of these drives. Pretty expensive if you ask me. I think I can hold out a little while longer though. If I didn't know how to build PCs and was looking to buy a PC, this Sony would look REALLY good to me.

 

[bigbootydaddy]

one bad thing is they take forever (at least the mac ones that i read about while sig other was getting a papsmear <--gross)

you could watch the movie in time it takes to burn.

cool nevertheless

 

[Digobick]

That's pretty cool and all, but aren't the discs somewhere around $40-$50 per disk? For now, it's basically just a neat gadget to say &quot;yeah, my computer has this, DOES YOURS?&quot;

 

[BlvdKing]

I'd be pissed if I made a coaster out of one of those!

 

[JackBurton]

<< but aren't the discs somewhere around $40-$50 per disk? >>



Nope, $18 for a 4.7GB disc that can be rewritten. Not bad considering 100MB Zip disks are $10. Sure CD-Rs are cheaper, but $18 for a DVD-RW disc is not bad at all. I'd like to see 7GB+ discs though.

 

[fkloster]

<< one bad thing is they take forever...(to record) >>



Its o.k. considering they are over 4 times larger than 700mb cd's

 

[JackBurton]

<< Its o.k. considering they are over 4 times larger than 700mb cd's >>



Make that 6.5+ times larger than 700MB CD-Rs.

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah I noticed that, sweet system. DVD-RW, TV Tuner, GF2MX, 1.7GHz P4 for $2500. It should be a real winner in the retail market.

 

[fkloster]

<< GF2MX >>



thats the only joke about it. Thats like a ferrari with wooden wheels.

 

[SpideyCU]

Man, leave it to the system makers to pair something as powerful as a 1.7 P4 with an MX! You're gonna suffocate the poor thing! Getting back to the point, yeah, for a system like this, that IS a good price. Yeesh.


EDIT: Curse you...beating me to the point!

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Could any body put one together cheaper than that w/exactly the same equipment - no upgrades? I think I would be hard pressed to match it. I guess it's tough when you have to buy that RAMBUS crap and those expensive Intel motherboards and processors. I think the way they do it is Intel or somebody subsidizes a chunk of the cost for the RAMBUS in those high end P4 systems. I remember reading an article abou that somewhere...

 

[fkloster]

Intel sells some retail P4's that 'include' 2-128mb PC-800 rimms... Now thats subsidization.

 

[Duvie]

I also heard on a tech news report that HP was adding dvd-rw to their line-up...This will definitely help dvd-rw go mainstream and end any format war that exist and can bring down the cost for us consumers...

Don't think sony and HP pay that much for the drives, as well as the subtraction of the added dvd-rom and cd-rw that were common in the systems anyways...so for them to add it may have been like 500 bucks to the system which seems right as I have seen similar systems by sony in around town stores right at the 2000 mark...