Sam
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I was originally looking to spend about £350 on a PC but managed to buy it all secondhand for £100!
£75 - Dell Optiplex GX240 - P4 1.6, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HDD, floppy and CD-ROM drives, Windows 2000 Professional (legit as well with serial number on the side):
£10 - 17" Compaq CRT monitor, which matches my PC case:
£15 - lightweight notebook-style aluminium keyboard:
£0 - Microsoft optical wheel mouse which I had spare
Well chuffed with my purchases, actually the bits only cost me £85 really as my brother bought the keyboard for me!
When I get paid I'm looking to upgrade to a 64Mb video card, and CDRW/DVDRW combo drive. Once that's done the PC will suit my requirements completely, as I will only be using it to go on the Internet, and use for Office/web design/MP3s - got an XBox to play games on.
 
[Edited on 08-04-2006 by Sam]
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kz
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nice one mate. ebay?
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Andrew
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Niceone Sammy 
Wack your laptop on eBay now and get about £200 for it 
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Sam
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Yeah I got the system and monitor off eBay, the keyboard my brother bought for me from Maplin's.
Not sure what I want to do with the laptop...
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Ian
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Computing is cheap!
I've a Compaq iPaq here thats as quick as my proper computer, cost about 50 quid for the base and I've got it on a second input on one of the screens.
Browsing the web there's nothing between them.
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Sam
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It took me about an hour of browsing eBay to find my base unit, as most of the other ones I've seen go for at least £100-£150! Got a proper bargain methinks!
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kz
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whats this about a laptop? my mate wants a cheap one
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Sam
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It's a bit crap TBH.
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kz
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fair dues!
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Ian
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Yeah 75 quid for a P4 is good price.
Out of interest what day did the auction close on? I've often said stuff is cheaper at weekends.
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Sam
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I bought it on monday, and it finished on wednesday - he was selling 10 of them I think on buy it now.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8790503795
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Steve
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we chuck PC's like that out every year from our office, hes making good money selling them at £75 a pot, i bet ya he gets them free from his office on the yearly or 3 yearly upgrade of PC's
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Sam
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Yeah probably does.
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Yeah 75 quid for a P4 is good price.
Out of interest what day did the auction close on? I've often said stuff is cheaper at weekends.
Friday and Saturday night are the best for bargains
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
we chuck PC's like that out every year from our office, hes making good money selling them at £75 a pot, i bet ya he gets them free from his office on the yearly or 3 yearly upgrade of PC's
ditto steve, we throw P4 dells out the back like they are going out of fashion
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