The $1000 PC

[AlienInv8r]

I built mine for about $850 during thanksgiving '03, so almost a year and a half ago -
raidmax case w/lots of neons and big window, 52x cdrw, dvd, 512mb DDR400mhz ram, 80 gb hd, DFi Lanparty mobo (glows in the dark), AMD 2800+, Thermaltake cpu fan(really big one), ATI 2600 256mb vid card.

It performs amazingly, never had any problems and can run just about anything I throw at it (ie- 3d games and some hardcore engineering programs)

[3.4 slow to go]

tiger direct bare bones 2.8ghz, 512ram, cd rom, 40gig hdd,some nVidea card (not using), 17" lcd. roughly $400 after rebates. got in Dec.

[TealV6]

Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go:
my company is just one of many under the umbrella of this company
and we don't need no stinking macs.

that;s what subcontracting is for [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Care to retract your comment???

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,57961,00.html

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/06/22.3.shtml

http://home.earthlink.net/~mjohnsen/...logy/army.html

http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/colsa/

http://train.apple.com/news/success/...ion_guard.html

We just infultrate very slowly like cancer :D

[mike h]

ill bet i could do a search for a bunch of microsoft-based news with a positive spin too. :rolleyes:

[shenanigans]

YOu guys should also check out deals on www.fatwallet.com for DELLs...

My girlfriend picked up a P4 2.4ghz, 60gigHD, 512mb ram, XP pro tower, mouse, keyboard, and speakers(no monitor) for ~$440 like a year ago

[57s98Camaro]

Originally posted by TealV6:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by 57s98Camaro:
Bleh, Macs. Maybe if they concentrated on making their PC's not suck instead of looking good I'd be willing to give it a try.

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You must not know the power of Unix.... I think I'll take a *nix core over anything M$ can produce... maybe one day they'll ship Longhorn. </font>[/QUOTE]Unix will run just as well, if not better, on an IBM compatible as it will on any Mac. I don't see how that makes Macs &gt; M$.

I'd never use a Unix based OS for my home machine, though I have been itching to play around with the various flavors of Linux I don't have a spare machine to do it on.

[shock_core]

I have you all beat :\ $2100 Hypersonic laptop bought last year in march

3.2 Ghz HT P4
800Mhz Bus
500mb DDR RAM
60Gig 7200RPM HDD
ATI 9600 Turbo Mobile
15.5 LCD Screen
All Sorts of Goodies and Ports :D

Not one virus, piece of spyware/adware. Runs like a top on M$ XP Pro.

[Wicked 3800 V6]

Eric, where did you buy the R3000Z for $560? You said office depot twice. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

http://secure.newegg.com/app/shoppin...tem=11-146-005 &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; case :D [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...024-503&depa=1 &lt;&lt;lcd

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...131-517&depa=1 &lt;&lt;mobo [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]


http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...103-502&depa=1 &lt;&lt;cpu

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduc...165-017&depa=1 &lt;&lt;&lt; :D [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/banana.gif[/img]

2- 80GB WD hard drives in a raid 0

1024 ram

CDRW 52X32X52|SONY

and i got windows xp Pro for $69 bucks at an other online store :D [img]graemlins/omg.gif[/img]

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

what ever happen to that "WINUX" that was suppose to come out and be the best OS ever?

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by Wicked 3800 V6:
Eric, where did you buy the R3000Z for $560? You said office depot twice. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Why office depot of course, ;)


It was like a limited weekend deal with rebates... I built my sam computer for just under $1k, which is ok I guess but not great. A co-worker/computer nerd friend called me up to tell me about the deal, she bought her boyfriend one, and a second one just to resell on ebay(she finds deals and resells on ebay all the time) She said she hasn't seen a deal this good ever. 2 other co-workers of mine picked them up to.

I have half assed been looking at laptops, nothing fancy but something that was like 750mhz+ in the $200-300 area but it seems like they are all still around $500ish even used, then I saw this deal little more then I wanted to spend but its new, and has more then what I was looking for. I think the deal ended last wed.

[Tru2Chevy]

Nice machine you put together.

Here's my girls (H3idi has been upgraded to a gigabyte mobo and an athlon 1ghz with 384 mb pc133):

http://home.comcast.net/~tru2chevy/He4ther.html

- Justin

[InZane4all]

Bleh, here's mine:

Raidmax Samurai Case
Abit VT7 Mobo
Pentium 4 3.0E Ghz HT
Kingston 512MB of RAM X2 DDR 3200 = 1024MB of RAM
BFG 6800 GT OC Vid Card (AGP)
Sound blaster Audigy 2Z Xe Soundcard
SATA 200GB X2 Raid 0 = 400GB of space
Logitech 6.1 Surround sound speaker system
Proview 17" LCD Monitor ( which I consider to be the cheapest thing in my system).

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

Originally posted by InZane4all:
Bleh, here's mine:

Raidmax Samurai Case
Abit VT7 Mobo
Pentium 4 3.0E Ghz HT
Kingston 512MB of RAM X2 DDR 3200 = 1024MB of RAM
BFG 6800 GT OC Vid Card (AGP)
Sound blaster Audigy 2Z Xe Soundcard
SATA 200GB X2 Raid 0 = 400GB of space
Logitech 6.1 Surround sound speaker system
Proview 17" LCD Monitor ( which I consider to be the cheapest thing in my system).

1 you don't count cause your over 1K

2 noone cares cause it says "Intel" on it [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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[shenanigans]

not sure if it counts, my Dell, was $1100, so about $1k, I got it in '02, or '03, cannot remember probably '03.

P4 2.0 ghz
512mb ram
40gig HD
XP pro
64mb Nvidia card
32x burner
16x dvd drive
16 in flat style monitor