tidixon from SlickDeals Forums said:CONSUMER ALERT: I received a 531s with an AMD Sempron. I have emailed them to rectify this, but I am VERY upset. I almost pulled the trigger on a processor upgrade, and I had done so, would be obviously even more upset. This is NOT okay. If they do not rectify this immediately I will be filing a report at the BBB and with PayPal.
I live in DC and they shipped from VA, in case anyone is wondering how I received my PC literally the next day.
It looks like they are open for business today, so it may be quicker to give them a call (703-263-0211 for Chantilly). Here is there full contact info.
The above incident was for a similar, now-sold-out deal regarding a Dell 530s with a Pentium Dual Core for $119. However, it looks like it is now resolved, according to the thread at SlickDeals.
More information on the SlickDeals thread here.
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Hi Everyone,
I was looking at used desktop deals, and stumbled across this Dell Inspiron 530 PC for $99 + shipping.
The shipping for me is coming up as $17.
I believe it is item # 5001 in their Black Friday ad, so I don't know how long this price is valid. The company seems to have decent (albeit dated) Reseller Ratings, but I personally don't have any experience with them. It looks like they are based out of Virginia.
Here are some quick specs:
- Celeron 450 (2.2Ghz Conroe-L)
- 2GB RAM
- 250GB Hard Drive
- DVD-RW
- Intel G31/G33 chipset (not listed, but pretty sure this is correct)
- Windows Vista Home basic (I think they have versions with XP Pro for $20 more)
Note that this is the tower only. There are no accessories included (keyboard, mouse, Restore CDs).
We currently have a pseudo-HTPC that is used to watch online videos via TV-out (an Athlon Thunderbird 1.4Ghz with 512MB of RAM and a Geforce 4 Ti). With Flash CPU requirements on the rise, I thought that this desktop would make a good replacement (although I'll have to add a video card).
I was initially going to get
Any thoughts?
I may even add a dual core CPU later on. I saw the Amazon deal for the e5200 and planned to play "musical components" with some other systems and parts I have, but this PC looked like a better solution since I don't have quite enough spare parts.
With a few upgrades (power/CPU/RAM/video card), it looks like it'd make a great budget gaming system.
There are some images of a similar PC here.
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