How much did you pay for your computer?

I got mine on ebay for a buck, but when you add shipping charges it actually cost me $36.00. Now if you add in all the bad deals and junk i bought before i finally got it, then thats another $250 to $300. But still it was less than $500. It is an IBM and is tough as nails, it has to be to survive with me for the past two years. Yes it is old and slow but so am I so we get along just fine. That mule, old rivers and me.

I traded my old desktop pc, computer desk and a couple of much needed/wanted files for my current laptop!

I got a dell 8400 for 1600$, but with a ton of extras (it was on sale at 25% off, plus free shipping, etc). It pays to check their website on a reg basis and no problems to this date (this is my 2nd dell desktop)

cheers

I got my first computer, a stock Compaq 5310US when I was in 6th grade. It's been four years now and it's still running perfectly. It's excelent for average computer tasks. My father paid $1200 for it at Circuit City. We were able to get free dial up internet for a year. I wasn't able to get the $200 rebate since at the time HP bought Compaq. It was forgivable though. All in all compaq is the way to go and I would gladly buy an HP Compaq. All my specs are in my profile.

It was a Sony VAIO RZ71G purchase in Japan with full multimedia features including Gagapocket and two DVD burners,and lots of bells and whistles. P4 3.06 Ghz clock. It was right when P4 went over 3Ghz so I expected it to be expensive. Sure is a lot cheaper now. Prices of computers and peripherals in Japan only now are starting to coming down, thanks to Internet competition, but historically about 1 1/2 to 2x higher than Stateside. However, I got very good software bundled with it and it was in Japanese which I wanted because my work is done in both languages.

Hrmm...i think i got the best Bang for the Buck!

I can get 100 fps in Counter-Strike 1.6... but i know i can get more kus it just STAYS 100....so im guessing i can get a max of 150fps And GREAT PRICE!! i love it lol!

Price for Computer: ~$700 (including shipping + tax)
- AMD Athlon 64 +3400
- Gigabyte nForce3-250 Motherboard
- 1GB PC3200/DDR400 RAM
- 160GB SATA HD Western Digital
- GeForce FX5500 256MB oc
- DVD-Burner, CD Burner
- Floppy Drive

Price for Monitor: ~$300 (including shipping + tax)
- 19 inch LCD monitor

$200 HOPEFULLY. That is to say $500 minus 300 in rebates. this includes a compaq amd 3100, 512mb Ram 160gb ata hd 2 firewire and 4 usb2 ports, and a dvd burner. Now if I can get that $300 back/

in 1999 i paid 900 euro (don't know how much $ that is...we didn't have euro's than.in guldens (Hfl)it was about 2000),that was incl. the monitor and windows 98SE.later on i upgrade it to work faster.and that costed me about 400 euro's.BUT:for that money i had an almost complete new PC! : hard disk,motherboard,videocard,soundcard,dvd-rom.AND they installed some old stuff that still works fine,my old harddisk (only 8 GB),my floppydrive and cd-burner.for THAT time (i guess it was 2001)it was a very nice price in the Netherlands!nowerdays pc's are much cheaper,incl.the monitor,printer,scanner and if they have to:a new mother in law...
Raymond Venverloo;the Netherlands.

I paid around $700.00 for my Dell Dimension 4500 series in 2001. It's been great.Iv'e added some memory to make it even better. It's been nearly trouble-free from day 1.

My first computer cost $500. If was part of a class my wife was taking on accounting. It was a 486 with 4 meg of memory and no CD-Rom, sound card. Just basic computer. After her curse fininsh, I started to upgrade it thru the years, more memory, sound card, cd-rom, etc. My first major upgrade cost me $300. New motherboard, chip, memory and video card. I keep upgrading it thru the years and still using it since 1993. Is max out to the motherboard potential and still runs almost all the programs today with exception the newer games.

My second computer I build it from scratch. I won from AMD a motherboard and Ahtlon chip. Bought a case, memory which is cheap now and DVD dual burner, always on sale. It is not the top of the line but it can keep up with all games now and posible for the next couple of years. The most money I spent for a single item was my first printer. It cost me $300 in 1995. It still working, but I swear I will never ever again spent that kind of money on computer related item.

My third and fourth computer were free. Where my wife works (Car Dealer), they got tired of fixing these new computers and decided to thrash them. My wife ask not to throw them away and give them to her. She gave it to me, I fixed them and now I got four computer running in my network for the whole family.

So I never pay more than $500 for a computer to use. But if you add all the upgrades thru the year, I probably spend around $1,000 since 1993 thru 2005 for 4 running computers. Can you beat that?

This is my second computer from emachine (under $500) and it is a wonderful machine as was the first one that we used for years with no problems. I has all the features of a Dell I was pricing out for $950.

It was over $2,000.00 and it was a Dell after having a HP crash shortly after garantee was up left a bitter taste in my mouth and cost over $2,000.00 as well. And their service was absolutely lousy so I went to Dell who have been excellent.

Old tower overheating. Walked into Office Depot. Closeout on Gateway. Bought it. List ~$900, prob available for ~$700. Seems like a decent price and no regrets so far after 3 days.

around a 1000 in parts (including vanity case) and built it myself.3 years ago it was , so it has been bypassed since- still like it though.

Just the computer was $399 (Dell), but all the add-ons brought it to the $751-1,000 category--upgrade speakers, software, service contract, etc.

I paid $2,100 for my computer (Sony PCV-RZ56G) and $900 for my Sony monitor (SDMHX93)...overall, extremely happy with system; although after a little more than one year my hard drive failed (western digital)...no longer under warranty...had to buy a new one for $150).

I paid nearly $1,700 for just the box, no peripherals except mouse, keyboard and speakers. It's a built to order Compaq with XP. However, I work on it all day; so I got extra RAM, extra MHz, has floppy drive, CD and CD recorder that's extra fast, 2 year in home contract for all service. And an extra Seagate hard drive almost the same size as the primary large drive that I ordered with it.

It's BIG! Had to rebuild my computer cabinet. No regrets at all, it's worth every penny in terms of speed, etc. It's two years old, figure it'll last me 1 or 2 more with luck.
Bess W. Metcalf, http://sneakykitchen.com

Custom Built
i'm sure i could tally it at over $3000 if I went from begining of build in late 2003 to what it's at now 2+ years later

but that'd include a total refit in 2004 and a major upgrade this spring

A friend gave it to me.

I got an emachine about six years ago and it's still going strong. It's never been in the shop and I have no regrets whatever about buying it. The machine I had at work, a Gateway, had to go to tech support at least four times in just a couple years. Give me my emachine any time.

It was about $570 at Wal Mart (Out of the box with 15'' monitor, plain jane keyboard, wheel mouse, and dinky speakers, all replaced), including taxes.....I bet it was more like $1100 when it was all said and done.....Haven't really had any problems, aside from a few driver errors.....I mostly just burn CD's, DVD's, and use it as the center of my home theater(I use the S-Video and Line Out), since I have a TON of music.....

eMachines W1640
128 MB nVidia GeForce 5200 FX video (Came with 32 MB Integrated, yuck)
VIA Audio (Integrated, no problems)
768 MB PC2100 Memory (128 MB standard)
130 GB HD (40 Standard)
HP LightScribe DVD Burner (Came with a CD Burner and a floppy)
Athlon XP 2700+ (Came with a 1600)
XP Home (Service Pack 2)

Also, the laptop I'm on right now (It's not mine, but my significant other's) is an HP Pavilion ze4400, paid $850 for it, and Wal Mart threw in a case and an HP PSC 1210v printer.....So it's not too bad, for what we need it for.

256 MB RAM (''Up to'' 64 MB shared for Video)
Athlon XP 2200+
30 GB HD
XP Home (Service Pack 2)

I think that's it, not much to upgrade on a laptop...lol

Ken Spencer, Jr.

I've only had 2 computers. both HPs.
My 1st got destroyed by downloading a Web Accelorator.
Both of my omputers were "free" for me.
Because, My dad, bought them for me.
The 2nd HP was NOT cheap. after the $ and the 3 yr. extended Store warrenty..it rounded out to around $3,000.

It is an Emachine and it works fine, my only complaints are that the monitor could be sharper and the technical support is lousey. For phone support you have to pay, for online support I have used it twice and been told that my problem couldn't be solved, only to have figured out the solution on my own after some thought. Recently my operating system needed to be completely reloaded, and the tech support person told me that there was no way to save the data on my hard drive. Well, actually there were a few ways that the data could be retrieved and I was able to save my very important info...I am so glad I didn't listen to him and thought about the problem....

Initially... I spent a grand total of about $375. This was for an Athlon XP 2000+ chip, motherboard, 640 MB RAM and a case. The inital hard drives were salvaged from one box that died and another that I was putting in storage. The CD RW/DVD combo drive was a present from a client in the form of an Amazon certificate. The drive in question was about $95 at the time.

Since then, I've done a couple of upgrades, dual 250 GB Western Digital drives, a TV Tuner card and a DVD ROM burner. Additional expense: $458...

The keyboard mouse and monitor were all reused along with the 4 port KVM switch.

Best way to get a computer - work for, or know someone working for a company closing a site. Got my sister and my parent P4 desktops plus one for myself, plus notebooks for me and my ex.

Last computer I paid for I built myself - $1700 all said and done - Athlon processor, Radeon 8500 with TV tuner, Dolby 5.1 speakers... was meant to be cheap. Didn't work out that way.

Before that bought an HP 8870. Piece of junk - I finally disassembled it after it started shocking me when I touched the frame.

-cj

I paid 1800 Dollars And I built it myself. AMD 64 2800 proc, ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe MOBO, Western Digital Raid 0 SATA HDD 224GB. NVIDIA 6800 GT Graphics Card, Creative Audigy 24-bit 7.1 Sound Card, 7.1 Creative Speakers, Dual NEC 19" CRT Moniters (Used). Antec Case w/600W Power Supply. 1.5 GB Crucial RAM. Dual LG DVD-R,RW DL Burners.
P.S. It is the first Tower i've built. I wont need to upgrade anything for at least 2 1/2 to 3 years.

I paid approx. 700 for my computer. I have no regrets. I have updated it twice. It is s HP and the only wish I have is that I would have looked a little more forward and got a bigger hard drive and more memory to begin with. I never thought I would use as much space in my computer as I have.

The last computer I bought was an Apple Powerbook 15 in and I paid $1999 for it.