How much did you pay for your computer?

$299 with out a vid. card you paid to much!
Shop -- good computers are out there and very cheap.

I paid about $1400 for this system, it's a Dell and has a Samsung LCD monitor as recommended by a major consumer group at the time of purchase. It's now about a year old. Already I need to update the graphics card and memory for advanced gaming features. It never ends...

Just 3 weeks ago I purchased a LapTop. It is a Gateway DS M680X. The screen is a 17.0" Ultrabright WSXGA+ TFT Active Matrix which I LOVE!It is huge and with the big wide screen you get the side number pad like on desktop key boards which is a plus. It has the dvd burner and an 80 gig hard drive. This was a bit expensive for an 11 yr old but I feel it is money well spent. I am considering getting one for myself and giving my 3 yr. old dell to my 5 yr. old. My dell works great and is still considered great machine. At least according to all the tests I do. Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should purchase? Personally I love my daughters computer but hubbie hates the price.
THE BRONX MOM
breezy27@optonline.net

MY SON CAME HOME WITH A BOX OF COMPUTER PARTS FROM A
CAR BOOT,
A BIG BOX,
A CARBOOTER AT THE END OF THE DAY,
TOLD HIM HE COULD HAVE THE WHOLE LOT IF HE COULD CARRY
THE BOX,
SO HE DID AND WALK AWAY ABOUT 3 COMPUTERS,
PARTS ALL BOX AND NEW

I bought an ibook G4 w/superdrive (running Tiger10.4). The price I payed included an educators discount through my mother, an extended warrenty (APP ), icurve, imic, additional plug in keyboard and mouse, also a Procare membership with Apple and tax. I got a sweet deal!

I bought an ibook G4 w/superdrive (running Tiger10.4). The price I payed included an educators discount through my mother, an extended warrenty (APP ), icurve, imic, additional plug in keyboard and mouse, also a Procare membership with Apple, an Airport base station and tax. I got a sweet deal!

Run to Staples Guys ... no regrets. Staples great bundle package comes in under $500 and has enough power for the most of us.

Compaq SR1500NX system is a AMD 3000+, 256M DDR, 80GB HD, DVD/CDRW, Modem, 10/1000. Enough power for most of us ... heck that is an magnitude upgrade on nearly every component of my three year old system.

17" Flat Screen Monitor, large enough and is crisp and clear even for those of us going blind from decades of using computer systems.

HP Deskjet printer, ok ... it has great resolution is compact and HP has put out good printers, it was in the bundle and I personally will shy away from printers that use ink as we all know that is how they dig into your pocket book.

3YR Staples extended warranty - check it out folks, I am even covered for surges.

Now yes, there are a lot of rebates to get you down to this 423.53, and some of you will forego the 3yr coverage and save even more. $593.53 cash outlay with another 50/50/50/20 in rebates ... just proves it can be done without having to build it yourself.

BTW the Staples bundle ends 07/30/05 but it will happen again.

I paid $599.99 for mine. It's a Compaq Presario 7360 and within the first week it began to have crashes. It may have been due to something that I was doing wrong, I don't really know. But within a month I had to wipe everything clean and install everything new on it again.

I paid $725 for a customized HP Pavillion A700y. It was to replace my antiquated and slow computer. Since our home computers are networked (through mine), other people's usage affected my old computer's speed. This was in March/April '05.

After that I bought a HP BT foldable keyboard to use with my PDA.

I wish I could truly justify buying a laptop, but my usage would not be truly justifiable. Especially currently with Laptops prices set for students going to college.

i paid 879,but with rebates of 180 it ends up costing me 699, for my compaq with the turin processor, at best buy. i love it

4000USD on Alienware's 51m... worst decision i made with my alowence so far in my life... this computer is about as useful as a laptop as it is herding the buffalo and harvesting the grains... so far screen broke cuz sum1 forgot to screw the screws in, the graphics card works for about ohhh 10-15 mins before it kills everything, they voided my warranty cuz i tried to fix the screen which they sadi would be ok (they lied), and well the only thing it really is good at is being a space heater... wish winter would come it will be quite an asset to have on the icy roads.....

$1,054 $NZ; An ACER RC500.ALL-IN -ONE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.CELERON 2.66GHZ/256MB/40GB HDD/DVD ROM-CD RW/56K/TV TUNER/FM/MS WIN XP HOME! ANY GOOD?

It is P-4, 3.0 GHz, 1 MB L2 Cashe Processor ; 512 MB RAM; TFT Monitor, and works at a quite high speed .

I think it is a great piece, only I'll soon upgrade to 3GB Ram; DVD Writer; Photo printer and take a digital Cam.

from owner of site: www.palmist.tz4.com

Just took delivery of custom built.
Paid $ 3197.00

Case: Thermaltake Silver aluminum VA9000
PSU: Enermax EG565P- all-in-one 565 watts SLI ready
MoBo: Asus A8N-SLI deluxe
CPU: AMD Alton64x2 Dual core 4200+
Graphics: XFX GF 7800GTxg PCI-E SLI 256MB
2 Gig DDR Ram 400 Kingston
Harddrive: SATA 80 Gig Seagate
Hardcano 13 from Thermaltake
Windows XP Professional
LG Super Multi DVD burner (already had)
Viewsonic 19" PS790 (already had)
SB live Drive IR Platinum (already had)
Klipsch 4:1 (already had)

I always build my own thus saving between a third and half price, I cant understand why more people dont do it , if you read and handle a screwdriver its easy. and i am 70 years old

I would say it is Homebrew.
Intel mainboard as the processor.
All the rest had a diffrent father and mother and I asume that THAT is why it is this good!.
Jos.

I just purchased a new computer for $279.00 got everything but the monitor. I could not built it for that. It is an AMD based computer with Linspire OS. Amazing what they can sell computers for when you dont have to pay Microsoft for an OS. Downloaded Open Office and I am good to go.

Just under $2000.00. It is an MDG (Canadian). Intel 4-3.06 ghz, 512 mb ram,ATI 9200ZE-128 mb video card,Samsung 160 ghz hard drive, CDRW Writer, DVD drive,19"Samsung flat panel monitor, Lexmark all in one printer, digital camera, stereo speakers, dolby 5.1 surround sound, optical mouse, windows XP, Windows works. I think that covers it all. I have had it for a year now and it still works great. I have since got a DVD writer (HP) and have made many movie DVD's using Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus

I paid about $720 for the CPU only (HP 734n) and retained all my peripherals from my other computer.

Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the hassle to build your own, but you can still get a GOOD PC for less this way and it is also an educational process.

What you cannot do is undercut the cheapest computers such as you get at COSTCO, who also have the best return policy in the business.

I have nobody to send my homebuilt back to if it is problematic.

custom gaming computer (built myself)

Apple G5 duel 2.7, 4 gig RAM ...

17 inch Powerbook G4

Built them myself. No regrets at all.

I built mine myself. It is two years old. 2.4 Mb Pent 4, 512 Meg Ram, dual 120 M hard drives,.. In other words, it is the equivalent of buying a factory built for say $1500. Borrowed the Burners, etc. from previous computer and have since upgraded. If you don't count the XP Pro OS, the computer itself really only cost me about $500.

Do it yourself and save $$$. It is not all that difficult. Just ask questions. Listen to everybody but don't believe just anybody.

My machine was originally a HAUS Technologies machine, using a lot of pre-loaded software (it took a while but I did get the disks for them).

However, the only thing left that is HAUS Technologies is the case! I have used it to build a completely new computer, including upgrading the PSU. At the same time I took the time and spent the money on a new O/S, the one I had was the HAUS OEM version of Windows XP Home, I just bought the registered version of XP Home, so I can make what changes I need. If you want to see what my computer specs are now, see my profile.