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Taddeusz |
Not that a modem probably adds that much to the overall cost of the system, but why bother? If someone really needs a modem it's not that difficult to add one. Basically a USB click away from installing a modem.
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ChrisDTC |
My sister is starting college in the fall, and I have been running through builds on Newegg for a while, and generally $400 was about what it would cost for her rig. For only $50 more and to have a manufacturer warranty that will mean I dont get woke up when something goes wrong makes it a great deal.
Paired with a $170 19" LCD and she'll be good to go. |
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willyolio |
wow. i was planning on building my own PC with almost those exact specs. i'd rather have a 780G chipset, but the 8200's not bad. and this prebuilt ends up much cheaper. yay.
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flip-mode |
OK, after looking around, I take it back, this is a pretty killer deal. For the same money at Dell you get 1/4 the ram, a slower CPU, 1/3 the hard drive, total shat graphics. Win goes to Acer.
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flip-mode |
I'm not overly impressed. It is decent but not "wow". Just a little smaller than a Dell Optiplex SFF. Nice hard drive size and memory allotment, nice to see x64 OS. Graphics are underwhelming - I'd have liked to see a GF8400 or HD2400 low profile card.
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Kurotetsu |
I really, really like the look of it. I'm a fan of polished black and I can see that looking nice in any entertainment center. 4GB of RAM and Home Premium are both excellent choices for the price. I'm kind of surprised they went with a Geforce chipset instead of AMD's own though.
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Hattig |
For that price, it's a great deal. The 4850e isn't a bad chip at all - it's got to beat my old non-Phenom 4800+ X2 which is plenty fast enough. The integrated graphics might not play Crysis but they're a bazillion times better than whatever crap Intel shovels onto the market. eSATA as well.
Not the prettiest machine of course, and quite large as well (compared to a Mac Mini anyway), and the port layout on both sides of the machine is tatty. HDMI is nice, but does it come with a HDMI -> DVI adaptor/cable? 64-bit as well, out of the box. Should make an excellent media computer, or spare room computer. |
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maroon1 |
It seems that AMD are trying to fool people by their low TDP rating
Intel Core 2 E8xxx has 65W TDP but it consume 50% of its TDP at full load Please check this http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_11.html#sect0 TDP doesn't mean anything. Most of the Intel processors consume much less power than their rated TDP |
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Acer proves they're still the best bang for the buck in most regards, especially customer service.
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