question about my processor

for the fun of it,i will post this..

HP Pavilion Desktop Computer with Intel® Celeron® D 352 Processor, Monitor and All In One Printer
SAVE $460

ncludes Tower, Monitor and Printer
• 256MB memory
• 80GB hard drive
• Reads & Writes CDs
• CRT has 16" viewable area
• F380 All In One Printer or
Upgrade to model 3180 for $20 more
Configuration code 03134795


Office Depot to offer $99 PC with $99 shipping

The bargain season for back-to-school shopping begins next week, but read the fine print.

Office Depot will sell a Hewlett-Packard desktop PC complete with a CRT monitor and printer for $99. The bundle, which typically sells for $429, involves a $100 in-store instant rebate and four mail-in coupons.

The offer is good from Sept. 3 through 9.

Still, you have to have the machine shipped, and shipping comes to $99.

On the flip side, consumers don't need to sign up for new Internet service as part of the deal. Other companies and stores have offered $99 computers before, but these deals often required consumers to buy a year's worth of AOL dial-up service or open an account with some other Internet service provider.

Do customers come out for these deals? Yes. In December 2005, CompUSA offered a $149 Toshiba laptop and a $99 Compaq desktop after discounts. The retailer sold 7,500 of the notebooks in two hours, or 2.5 notebooks a minute. (To get these deals, consumers had to subscribe to AOL for a year.)

September is one of the key months for PC manufacturers and retailers. The third quarter is typically the second-biggest sales season of the year because of back-to-school buying. A significant portion of the PCs bought in the third quarter are sold during its last two weeks. Some pinpoint the end of the dot-com era to September 2000, when PC and semiconductor makers surprised analysts with dire warnings about sales.

As a result, companies begin to pour on the offers as the month rolls on.

The Office Depot computer comes with a Celeron D 352 chip, an 80GB hard drive and 256MB of memory.
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6111924.html?part=rss&tag=6111924&subj=news

 

Personally, I'd go for a $99 laptop and just add more RAM. Just reformat the harddrive and install a fresh copy of XP Home. It would make a nice travel buddy.

If I end up finding a good deal with a Go 7800GS or GT it's mine. I'm talking like <$2000 though.

 

stylist never said why she needed an upgrade for like games,movies or something else, if you do read this post back with why you most want to upgrade ur pc and then you can look at that area more then others

 

well, right now my computer is so slow that to convert a movie takes anywhere from eight to twelve hours. When I'm converting, everything is very slow in responding. My sister can convert a movie in an hour! this computer is very very slow, so if I can't upgrade it I may just have to buy another one.

 

so your main thing is movies if it is you might want to go for a better processor and cut back on some other things you might not need like going for an amd x64 processor or an intel core duo 2 which will be better for converting and viewing because converting takes cpu power mainly and movies do too

 

Well, yes and no. Pentium 4 is much better for video work because it is a clockspeed intensive task. So maybe just grab the system using the links I showed you. You can always get a Dell but be careful on your specs. Don't listen to their marketing slander at all.

They're like, "These powerful graphics really bring games to life and take you to new dimensions of realism." When it's really just some dimestore card you cou'ld go grab for $50. And not just for gaming either, they give you all sorts of crap like that on everything.

 

It all depends on how far you want to go with your system. Keeping the same power supply and case in an old Dell system is going to be difficult as they're all too often 145 watts, so you can't put anything high end in there without changing the power supply. An upgrade on a system of that age (no offense meant) is going to be quite a lot of work, and a new PC may be better for it. For the most basic of new computers Dell offer some of the bets deals, but if you're after something with any degree of performance it's better to either build one yourself or look for a more customisable site that doesn't charge you untoward amounts of money for asking for extra. If a site says "upgrade to xxx for $xxx" look on the http://www.newegg.com and see how much you could buy that component for yourself. That gives you a fair idea of how much they're charging, or overcharging you.

 

of course they will its marketing thats what they will always do

 

dosent look like stylist will reply i thik he just listened to the advice given b4 and now dont care about this forum no more by the looks its a 500mhz celeron which is most likely it always took that long cause the cpu is very slow

 

First off stylist99 is supposedly a woman being that they have a husband.

Second off welcome back sammorris. That'll teach you to piss off a mod won't it? Oh well, I'll just let it go and we'll all forget in a week.

 

Yes, and you'd better, LOL. Give stylist99 a chance, people do have legit reasons for not posting. I once went on holiday for a week and forgot to tell anyone here! <Guilty look>, sorry about that!

 

i will remeber not to mess with a mod aswell as i said something that wasnt very appropriate and then he banned me for 14 days then i created anoter account then he banned the account then i did it again and then he got really pissed i think so he said he'll report my ip or something can he do that?

 

Yes, technically you're allowed one warning about re-opening accounts, so if you're still here after two of them you got off lucky. My advice to you: Don't push your luck.

 

would he be able to do it even if i used hide ip platinum

 

Who knows. I don't feel it my place to comment on that.

 

ok so i was luck woho!

 

Yes. Any more of this should be in a PM, let's not ruin another thread.

 

Hi guys,
yes I am a woman, and I was gone for a couple of days. My husband, and my kids and I all drag race and we had a long race weekend. I will always respond unless I tell eveyone goodbye. My computer has always been slow doing the movies. Occasionally, I will scrub my hard drives in hopes that it will run faster, but...not really much difference. I found a dual core, pentium 4 system at staples for $599 on sale. Does that sound reasonable to you? I'm still looking around though. Sorry about the delay in answering, I'm new to this, so, I didn't think to let everyone know that I would be gone for a few days.

 

A dual core for $599? Go for it for sure. It'll do everything you need with no problems... 'cept maybe if you buy the kids games... you might need a to get a local geek for that.

Drag racing? Where are you living around? I know a few families into drag racing. I'm in the Wisconsin Rapids area...