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dang0001   08-12-2008 at 05:13:33 AM

My cousin's Dell is so plagued by hardware deficiencies (a crap celeron with 256MB of RAM) and crudware that that it keeps bogging down. Every four months I get pressed in to service to unclog it, and it takes forever. This time I told him he really needs a new PC because trying to save this one every four months is a lost cause.

Thing is, the PC has to run XP. Vista is non-negotiable with him (and I don't blame him here). The laptop is strictly a desktop replacement for two very non-techy 40-something year olds. There will be no games played on this. It's just email, web browsing and maybe Winamp and iTunes. Size, battery life, and lots of storage are unimportant.

Just looking for a decent PC that will be faster than the bowl of molassss he has now. Let's see, I'm totally cool with an AMD processor, if that's a good way to save cash. I kind of volunteered to buy him one, because I feel so sorry for him (long story), so I'd be really happy if this was a cheap buy. We're in the US.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   08-12-2008 at 06:28:28 AM
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cheapest i could find running XP.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834115431

He's digging a hole without vista...but hey, not my computer. There's nothing wrong with the OS. I use Vista and XP interchangeably, Vista on my new laptop, XP on my old desktop. The only gripe I have with Vista is the way the network and sharing center is arranged. Otherwise, there's no negatives to report. It doesn't crash, it doesn't have terrible incompatibilities. There's just a lot of pre- and post-release riffraff going around that simply doesn't apply anymore.

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dang0001   08-13-2008 at 06:45:09 AM
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Thanks a million for the suggestion, frozenlead. Does anyone else have any suggestions?

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