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General discussion

under $500 desktop

May 24, 2005 8:53AM PDT

I am looking to buy a new desktop, but was hoping to get away with spending under $500 without buying junk? Anyone know of where to look or brands/manufactuers to suggest?
thanks

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(NT) (NT) eMachines
May 24, 2005 9:06AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) do they have good quality records?
May 24, 2005 9:43AM PDT
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(NT) (NT) yep, they are very good value pcs
May 24, 2005 11:01AM PDT
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I agree
May 24, 2005 6:00PM PDT

I had an '03 model eMachines with a 1.6 gig AMD processor and 128 MB DDR RAM and I hooked up on the same table where this HP pc is now and it was just as fast. This HP was bought new in Jan. 05 and has a 2.93 gig processor and 256 megs of ram, go figure. I am wondering if i gave my sis the wrong pc..............

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By the way
May 24, 2005 6:03PM PDT

I forgot to mention, I got for about $500 each.