Computer for Sale

[Kindigger]

Dell Dimension 4100 5 years old this month. Original retail $1,500 purchased on Dell closeout for $1,200+.
Pentium 3, 933 MZ, Windows ME
384 memory (256 of it added last year for $98)
One year old 80g hard drive ($125) Can have original 20 also (don't know how to set jumpers to make it secondary drive)
CD & CDR
Needs new Floppy drive
17" monitor
Loaded with software/all manuals
New keyboard and mouse.
Cleaned inside and out.

I thought I needed a faster computer last Christmas. Hooked up the new one, and found it to be no faster than the one above :( If I didn't have to pay for the new one on my credit card <sigh>, I would keep the one above. The one I bought is a basic home computer. The one above is an office model.

$200

[unhappycamper]

1. a question

You mentioned ". . . Hooked up the new one, and found it to be no faster than the one above. . ."

Does that mean when you connected to the internet you got the same slow response? The speed of internet is most often a function of how you connect; it has little to do with your PC. (Exceptions to this rule - viruses, spyware, trojans and hijacking.) A dial up connection is the slowest, DSL is the next slowest, and usually cable broadband is the fastest. These are just rules of thumb.

Current generation PCs have plenty of horsepower to do most things. The two things you need to beef up on bottom feeder PCs are memory and hard drive. Bump the memory up to 512MB & the hard drive to at least 80GB & you should be fine. Unless you have some heavy duty gaming / graphics / programming requirements, $650 is about the correct price point.

PC marketing is effective - most people overbuy their systems.

[MeDeMax]

2. it is a decent buy...

While helping a friend, I recently found out that Windows XP professional runs reasonably on a PIII 500 Mhz. So your system should manage it comfortably. I myself use Linux which runs comfortably even on 300Mhz PII systems.

Also 384 Meg is plenty memory for most users.

I would be interested if I didn't have to think about paying the shipping on the system and the 17" monitor.

I am sure someone will snap up your system real soon.

[Kindigger]

3. Where are you?

I may deliver it just to get it out of my small apartment :) I haven't advertised it locally...master procrastinator.

As to the previous post...

I have 512 broadband. I now have 3gig? and P IV. I HATE XP (which came in the new one). I am using Firefox. Of course the aholes made the new one without enough slots for the 256 memory, but I think it already has 518 in it.

I so wish I didn't have to pay for the new one.

Laterzzzz...

[MeDeMax]

4. Cleveland Ohio...

where Kerry should have been crowned winner.

[Kindigger]

5. Crap

I just came through Cleveland about a month ago :( I went to PA to see my new grandbaby. I was also going to let my daughter have the puter for $100. After seeing her living conditions (they had their electric & phone turned off the week I was there), I decided she needed a lesson in priorities. I brought the thing all the way back to IA.

Of course she hates me now, but that's nothing new. :crazy:

PS Thank God you don't live in IN. Those people is nucking futz.

[MeDeMax]

6. perhaps the next time you visit PA

you can swing by withe 'puter, if it isn't sold already.

with + the = withe

:-)