So I bought a new Dell computer...

[route66]

Originally posted by: logic1485

Originally posted by: LoKe
Lots and lots of porno for your new dell, I hear they're good for that.

LOFL

Was that posted here? Hard to remember.

A funny comic at Penny Arcade.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: RossMAN
My E510 and 2005FPW arrived today

1 Dimension E510 ,Intel Pentium D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.8 GHz) $738.40
1 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz $0.00
1 Dell USB Keyboard $0.00
1 20 in (20.0 in viewable) 2005FPW Wide Aspect Digital Flat Panel Display $0.00
1 128MB ATI Hyper Memory PCI-Express X16 (DVI/VGA/TV out) Radeon X300 SE $0.00
1 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) $0.00
1 No Floppy Drive Requested $0.00
1 Image Restore $0.00
1 Dimension Dell Support $0.00
1 Windows Media Player 10 $0.00
1 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, English without Media, for Dimension $0.00
1 Dell Owners Manual installed on your system,click on icon after system set-up to access $0.00
1 Complimentary courses: Look for EU icon $0.00
1 Dell Direct Download $0.00
1 Internet Search and Portal $0.00
1 Dell USB 2-button mouse $0.00
1 Intel Pro 100M Integrated PCI NIC Card $0.00
1 56K PCI Data Fax Modem $0.00
1 Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 $0.00
1 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW $0.00
1 Sonic Cineplayer $0.00
1 Roxio Creator Basic/MyDVD Basic $0.00
1 Integrated Audio $0.00
1 No Speaker Requested $0.00
1 Network Associates McAfee 7.0,English,90-day Trial $0.00
1 NETZERO ISP $0.00
1 Broadband Icon for Inspiron $0.00
1 AOL for Broadband $0.00
1 Netscape ISP $0.00
1 Corel WordPerfect 12 plus Trial of Quartro Pro and Presentations $0.00
1 1 Year Limited Warranty $0.00
1 No Warranty, Year 2 and 3 $0.00
1 Warranty Support,Initial Year $0.00
1 Type 3- Third Party At Home Service, 24x7 Technical Support, Initial Year $0.00
1 Thank You for buying Dell $0.00
1 Thank you for choosing Dell $0.00
1 PC Restore Recovery System by Symantec $0.00
1 Paint Shop Pro Standard $0.00
1 Basic digital Music,Photo and Game experience $0.00

Sub-Total $738.40
Shipping $0.00
Tax $0.00
Total Price $738.40

damn you oregonians and your no sales tax state! I am jealous!

by the way how many packages did you get? Today I got a huge box with the PC and the 19 inch monitor inside...

and it's illegal to pump our own gas

Mine came in TWO boxes. Box 1 was the E510 and box 2 was the 2005FPW LCD.

This sooo weird.. my 19 inch lcd came in the same box as my PC... so what could be in that other box?? lol I hope another 2405 fwp!

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: LukFilm
Better deal is the Acer PC at Circuit City for $560 AR. Dual-core AMD 3800+, 1GB RAM, dual DVD drives, 250GB SATA drive, media reader, all the fun stuff.

I'd rather have the 20" LCD for $90 more than a slightly faster processor and more HD space. :roll:

 

[z0mb13]

bump for edit

 

[ts3433]

Dell stopped including XP install disks by default a long time ago; apparently now it's a ~$15 (OTOH) option. :/

 

[preslove]

I think you have to pay $10 for a system restore xp disk.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
what the hell? Arent I supposed to get an installation disk?

Depends. Which option did you choose?

• PC Restore recovery system by Symantec [Included in Price] Dell Recommended
• Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition re-installation CD [add $10]
• Genuine Windows® XP Professional re-installation CD [add $10]

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: z0mb13
what the hell? Arent I supposed to get an installation disk?

Depends. Which option did you choose?

• PC Restore recovery system by Symantec [Included in Price] Dell Recommended
• Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition re-installation CD [add $10]
• Genuine Windows® XP Professional re-installation CD [add $10]

I forgot to add that to my order, didn't see it. So now I get to call or email Dell, have them charge me $10 and wait for a week to receive it

 

[jlee]

YHPM. :evil:

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: z0mb13
what the hell? Arent I supposed to get an installation disk?

Depends. Which option did you choose?

• PC Restore recovery system by Symantec [Included in Price] Dell Recommended
• Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition re-installation CD [add $10]
• Genuine Windows® XP Professional re-installation CD [add $10]

I forgot to add that to my order, didn't see it. So now I get to call or email Dell, have them charge me $10 and wait for a week to receive it

goddangit didn't see this either

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: z0mb13
what the hell? Arent I supposed to get an installation disk?

Depends. Which option did you choose?

• PC Restore recovery system by Symantec [Included in Price] Dell Recommended
• Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition re-installation CD [add $10]
• Genuine Windows® XP Professional re-installation CD [add $10]

I forgot to add that to my order, didn't see it. So now I get to call or email Dell, have them charge me $10 and wait for a week to receive it

goddangit didn't see this either

I would have gladly paid it but I didn't see it until it was too late

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I forgot to add that to my order, didn't see it. So now I get to call or email Dell, have them charge me $10 and wait for a week to receive it

Didn't Dell at one time offer a method to create recovery discs from the machine itself?

Obviously, there are other methods to create these type of discs as well, but the method I am remembering (or misremembering, perhaps) was designed for user-friendliness.

 

[z0mb13]

Ross,u know which 1-800 number to call?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I forgot to add that to my order, didn't see it. So now I get to call or email Dell, have them charge me $10 and wait for a week to receive it

Didn't Dell at one time offer a method to create recovery discs from the machine itself?

Obviously, there are other methods to create these type of discs as well, but the method I am remembering (or misremembering, perhaps) was designed for user-friendliness.

I'm a n00b and lazy, I'll just wait for Dell to send it to me

z0mb13 - It's probably Dell Home sales?

 

[ActuaryTm]

I tend to not worry about these type of things, as I partake of this.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
I tend to not worry about these type of things, as I partake of this.

and I partake of this.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
and I partake of this.

Wonderful.

Diet Mountain Dew just nearly shot through one of my nostrils.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: RossMAN
and I partake of this.

Wonderful.

Diet Mountain Dew just nearly shot through one of my nostrils.

Sadly only a handful of AT'ers understand the correlation of Staples + CostCo Pizza + special European cheese.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Sadly only a handful of AT'ers understand the correlation of Staples + CostCo Pizza + special European cheese.

We few. We happy few. We bandwith of brothers.

And one Canadian.

Who doth not understand.

~ Tim Shakespeare, Henry HjoIII

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: RossMAN
and I partake of this.

Wonderful.

Diet Mountain Dew just nearly shot through one of my nostrils.

Sadly only a handful of AT'ers understand the correlation of Staples + CostCo Pizza + special European cheese.

Please do explain

that was definitely a WTF moment for me lol

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Sadly only a handful of AT'ers understand the correlation of Staples + CostCo Pizza + special European cheese.

We few. We happy few. We bandwith of brothers.

And one Canadian.

Who doth not understand.

~ Tim Shakespeare, Henry HjoIII

"Guys, who is Peter Flap?"

 

[kcthomas]

ya no more cds. instead they eat up 10 Gig of your hard drive space to store a copy of xp on your disk for restore purposes. make sure when you reinstall you nuke all the partitions and free up that precious space!

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: kcthomas
ya no more cds. instead they eat up 10 Gig of your hard drive space to store a copy of xp on your disk for restore purposes. make sure when you reinstall you nuke all the partitions and free up that precious space!

wait so I can reinstall right now even without the cd? how? I need to get rid of the extra crap they put in there

 

[Sluggo]

Feel free to try this system for getting Dell to send you one.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Feel free to try this system for getting Dell to send you one.

thank you much! I will give this a try