just order a new Dell

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What system? What video card?

"Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This will be my 3rd Dell waht do you think?
>
> Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800
> FSB, 1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
> Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
> Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
> Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
> Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
> capability
> Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003
> Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
> Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site
> Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support
>

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It's a 8400 with a 256MB PCI ExpressT x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce
6800


"WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What system? What video card?
>
> "Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:nFKsd.4515$Ou1.278332@weber.videotron.net...
>> This will be my 3rd Dell waht do you think?
>>
>> Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800
>> FSB, 1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>> Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
>> Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
>> Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
>> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>> Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
>> Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
>> Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
>> capability
>> Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003
>> Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
>> Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site
>> Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support
>>
>
>

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"Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's a 8400 with a 256MB PCI ExpressT x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce
> 6800
>
>

What's not to like? WSZsr has an 8400......


Stew

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"Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This will be my 3rd Dell do you think?
>
> Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800
> FSB, 1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
> Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
> Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Note with extremely over-inflated hard drives: Backing up that much data to
protect against drive crashes can become a fulltime occupation. I haven't
seen anything about including a DVD burner in this description. If you
expect to be filling up music / video / photos, you'll need one. I
personally distrust burners after my last batch destroyed nearly a third of
my photos when the burn bombed *after* I'd deleted the originals. My
favorite method of backing up data is creating a copy of a smaller drive
into a larger drive's folder, via network transportation. Slow, but
effective.

> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
> Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
> Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
> capability
> Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003

If you can swap the Works for Office, you'll be miles ahead when it comes to
college or business usage of your system.

> Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
> Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site
> Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support

3 or 4 year ONSITE NBD (next business day) is the best way to run. Hard
drives notoriously fail *once a year* until you get a good model installed.

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> Note with extremely over-inflated hard drives: Backing up that much data
> to protect against drive crashes can become a fulltime occupation. I
> haven't
> seen anything about including a DVD burner in this description. If you
> expect to be filling up music / video / photos, you'll need one. I
> personally distrust burners after my last batch destroyed nearly a third
> of my photos when the burn bombed *after* I'd deleted the originals. My
> favorite method of backing up data is creating a copy of a smaller drive
> into a larger drive's folder, via network transportation. Slow, but
> effective.

I do have a dvd burner. Also I really don't need 250 gig of hard drive!!
But it came with it, I have an 160 gig hard drive ehre that I will keep for
back up. Things like pictures or mp3 (I have my entire CD collection on that
drive) that I don't want to loose. So I will keep those files and others on
two different hard drive.


>
> If you can swap the Works for Office, you'll be miles ahead when it comes
> to college or business usage of your system.

I already have office '97 wich is enough for my needs.


>
> 3 or 4 year ONSITE NBD (next business day) is the best way to run. Hard
> drives notoriously fail *once a year* until you get a good model
> installed.

That could be a good idea, thanks!

Yvon

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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 20:58:40 -0500, "Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>It's a 8400 with a 256MB PCI ExpressT x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce
>6800
>
>
>"WSZsr" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:jOMsd.40945$Al3.9173@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
>> What system? What video card?
>>
>> "Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:nFKsd.4515$Ou1.278332@weber.videotron.net...
>>> This will be my 3rd Dell waht do you think?
>>>
>>> Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800
>>> FSB, 1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>>> Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
>>> Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
>>> Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
>>> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>>> Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
>>> Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
>>> Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
>>> capability
>>> Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003
>>> Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
>>> Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site
>>> Service, 24x7 Phone Tech Support
Ask for another dvd burner other then a Phillips dl. Read the forum
and see all the problems with it.

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HOW MUCH YOU PAYING? IF YOU'RE BUY A TOP OF THE LINE DELL YOU'RE PROBABLY
PAYING TOO MUCH! DELL...BAH-HUMBUG!!!


"Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> This will be my 3rd Dell waht do you think?
>
> Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800
FSB,
> 1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
> Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
> Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
> Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
> Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
> Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
> Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
> capability
> Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003
> Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
> Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site
Service,
> 24x7 Phone Tech Support
>
>

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On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:00:05 -0500, "Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>This will be my 3rd Dell waht do you think?
>
>Product: Pentium® 4 Processor 550 with HT Technology (3.40GHz, 800 FSB,
>1MB), Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
>Monitor: 19 in 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp™ Digital Flat Panel Display
>Hard Drive: FREE UPGRADE! 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
>Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005
>Network Interface: Integrated Intel® PRO 1000 Ethernet
>Document Management: Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
>Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy™2 ZS (D) Card w/Dolby 5.1, and IEEE 1394
>capability
>Productivity Software: Microsoft Works Suite 2003
>Digital Music: Dell Jukebox powered by MUSICMATCH
>Hardware Support Services: 1 Yr Ltd. Warranty, 1 Yr In-Home/On-Site Service,
>24x7 Phone Tech Support
>


Depends what you are going to use it for?

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"Yvon" <y_gravel@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Note with extremely over-inflated hard drives: Backing up that much data
>> to protect against drive crashes can become a fulltime occupation. I
>> haven't
>> seen anything about including a DVD burner in this description. If you
>> expect to be filling up music / video / photos, you'll need one. I
>> personally distrust burners after my last batch destroyed nearly a third
>> of my photos when the burn bombed *after* I'd deleted the originals. My
>> favorite method of backing up data is creating a copy of a smaller drive
>> into a larger drive's folder, via network transportation. Slow, but
>> effective.
>
> I do have a dvd burner. Also I really don't need 250 gig of hard drive!!
> But it came with it,

Yes, but if you downgrade to a lower sized HDD, you can save some money by
*reducing* the gross pricetag of your system.

>> If you can swap the Works for Office, you'll be miles ahead when it comes
>> to college or business usage of your system.
>
> I already have office '97 [which] is enough for my needs.

On an XP system? hmm... well, it's a bit outdated. Yes, it *may* work, but
so do Notepad and Wordpad. The lowest office version I'll work with is
2000.

>> 3 or 4 year ONSITE NBD (next business day) is the best way to run. Hard
>> drives notoriously fail *once a year* until you get a good model
>> installed.
>
> That could be a good idea, thanks!

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