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Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by reb, Jan 30, 2007.

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  1. Jan 30, 2007 at 4:32 PM #1
    reb

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    I went to Atlanta this wekend and my friends took me to a store that sells used and rebuilt computers. My friend Lee Ann knows computers and picked this one out for me. It's a year and a half old Dell, P4 2.8G/512MB/80G/XP PRO, optiplex Gx620. It was a business lease machine. I took it to my PC guru yesterday and he checked it out and pronounce it a good, fast machine. I'm sure I'll be happy with it being that my old Gateway is two cans and a string.
    I gave $250.000 and he threw in a new keyboard and mouse.

    :newsmile14:
     
  2. Jan 30, 2007 at 4:40 PM #2
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    I'd bump the memory up another 512, but in general its better than the machines used by the average TBR user.
     
  3. Jan 30, 2007 at 4:45 PM #3
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    I hope you meant $250 dollars instead of $250 thousand. :smile: I'd bump that ram up to 1g or more if/when you can. The more the merrier for XP.
     
  4. Jan 30, 2007 at 4:59 PM #4
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    Yeah, 250.00
     
  5. Jan 30, 2007 at 5:01 PM #5
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    cool, I figured I get laffed out of here for buying an antique.
     
  6. Jan 30, 2007 at 5:18 PM #6
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    It's a year newer than mine, and i have no plans to give it up. Just put Vista on it and it flies.
     
  7. Jan 31, 2007 at 1:09 PM #7
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    don't forget to defrag your keyboard from time to time
     
  8. Feb 2, 2007 at 10:10 AM #8
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    I am having a problem... two actually. I plugged in my scanner and my machine has just ignored it. I plugged in my printer and it acknowledged new hardware and I put in the software and the machine said it had a problem installing. My camera installation went in no problem.
     
  9. Feb 2, 2007 at 11:38 AM #9
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    I had a buddy who had an old scanner that XP wouldnt recognize and there was no driver (software) for XP for it. He had to buy a new one.

    You may be having a similar problem.
     
  10. Feb 2, 2007 at 12:44 PM #10
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