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Question

I am interested in this computer for $150.00 it is custom made. .It is a store bought Pro Series Case with a 250 Watt Power Supply in it. Windows XP Home edition. It has a Delta MP2-BX-X Version C Motherboard with an Intel Pentium III (500mhz) Processor, 13 gigabyte Western Digital Hard Drive, 320mb RAM, 56k Modem, 10/100 LAN Ethernet Card, Creative Sound Card, DVDROM and CDROM drives, and installed is a second chassis fan in the front. Also included is a Dell Quiet Key Keyboard and a Mouse with the PC.
And includes : Microsoft Office 2000 Professional (with Office 2007 file converters do you can open newer documents), AVG Free Edition Antivirus, AdAware, Media Player 11, Adobe Acrobat Standard 6.0, Adobe Photoshop Version 6, Adobe Publisher 2002, Adobe Pagemaker 7.0, Quick Time with I-tunes, Winzip, and every Windows and Office Update to date. It has a Pentium 3 600 MHZ Processor with 384mb RAM, . It also has a 10 GB Hard Drive with a 40x CDROM.

Is it a good deal?

Answer 1

It's a peice of crap. It's from about 1999 judging from the Pentium 3. And CPU power double every 18'ish months, so as you can imagine it's a dog.

Build your own through newegg.com for a few more dollars:

$60 AMD 3600+ dual core
$30 1gb of DDR2 RAM
$50 Basic motherboard
$30 Case with 300watt power supply
$35 80gb hard drive
$20 DVD burner

For $225, a brand new dual core PC

Look on craigslist for a copy of XP ($10-20)

How to put it together videos can be found on youtube and other video sites.

Answer 2

Well, let me look at each one.....

The processor is not up to standards. it is only 500MHz (or 600MHz???). A good computer has at least 1.80GHz (alot with 2 separate processor's).

The Hard drive is REALLY small. with only 13GB (or 10GB?) it is tiny compared to the common 150GB.

The RAM is also small. 320MB (or 384MB?) compared to 1 or 2GB

Other than that, all the programs are good and it comes with a modem and Ethernet.

If I personally had the choice of buying this computer or wait a few months for a brand new computer I would wait. If you are planning to really use it every day then buy a new one. lots are $300 or lower. With that kind of hardware it would be the equivalent of a new Windows 98. If this is a DIY computer that someone built themself or you saw it on eBay you shouldn't get it. it might be full of viruses or don't even work!

So, Yes it is a good deal, but I still wouldn't buy it

Answer 3

Java, C++, and Python are too complex for a 13-year-old beginner who is trying to teach himself. You are a beginner who has no prior programming experience, which makes it very hard to know about data structures and algorithms and mathematical methods. Those concepts usually are not learned until college. The complexity of the programming is what is causing you learning problems; you don't yet know how programmers think, and there are too many details you have to learn to be able to write useful programs. You cannot learn computer programming by staring at a screen. You need to print out your programs and write notes of your interpretation of what each line is supposed to do. You haven't yet learned some of the fundamentals of computer programming, one being everything that has a name is more complex than it appears. Another is that programming is easy, it's the exceptions that are hard. Another is that you spend 10% of your time writing the programming and 90% of your time finding the bugs and fixing them. When you are in school, does the math class teach you calculus? There have been rare geniuses who could do calculus at the age of 13. Most people have to start with simple algebra at 13 years of age and learn little bits for several years until they can begin calculus at age 17 or older. They have to be shown some details and then they work homework to practice getting the details into their mind. Every class builds on the previous classes. Same thing with computer programming. If you try to go too fast, you won't really learn anything. Every day you should try to learn one small new thing, and practice on it. Over time, each little thing becomes more familiar and you will be able to understand it a little better. And by over time, I mean a long time. A single simple tutorial should take you at least six weeks to fully understand.

Answer 4

Yes, it's a good deal. Don't listen to the "keeping up with the Joneses" crowd. When I got ahold of it, I would set the antivirus to not run automatically due to your low processor speed and memory (but do run it manually before you went to bed), but honestly, even when people do get faster computers these days they pile stuff onto the operating system until their system takes longer to boot than the Windows 95 dinosaurs of a decade ago. People say you "need" faster computers, because people making software tend to assume you /have/ faster computers with more video memory, and slack a bit when writing software. The end result, is that even though computers should be running ten times as fast today, they're actually running about twice as slow.

The question you really should ask yourself before you buy a computer is, what am I going to use it for. If you're looking at playing a lot of games, you can buy a decent video card for a hundred bucks or less. If you're doing a lot of memory intensive stuff, you can get a gig of ram for about a hundred bucks as well.

If you're just using the office stuff and checking your e-mail, it's all you need. Don't worry about the processor speed either; if your machine's primarily for internet comunications, you're going to be limited more by your bandwidth than your processor regardless what you've got under the hood.

It's the same logic with buying a car. Sure, we'd also like to buy a ferari. But in a world with speed limits and high gas prices, where you'd never be able to push the ferari to its limits anyway, one car really is just as good as any other.

Especially if you're only paying a hundred fifty for it.

Answer 5

Well. That thing is outdated as hell. Thats the first problem. Also The HDD Space is really limited. From what it sounds like also, is that there are probably no IDE or SATA Ports open for new devices. You can build a computer 10x better for only 300 bucks. (Asus MotherBoard, 2 Gigs of Ram, Quad Core Intel, Plus an ATI Gcard)

So overall no. Save up and get a computer built.

Answer 6

Shortly, no.
If you are a regular computer user, this is not the computer for you. I have a Compac (cant spell) pc with 500 Mhz AMD K6 processor, and it takes 15 minutes to start up win XP pro with no additional software. 13 gigs wouldnt be enough if you want some software and space for music and video. this would be a really good computer if it was the year 2000 or 1999.
if you have technology knowledge, you may want to build this computer yourself. Or, wait for the next holiday and buy a 200 dollar emachine pc online. (try circuitcity.com) It will have an up to date processor, hard drive, etc.

Answer 7

Let me well you that that computer is ancient and will not really run any current apps and programs. For $150, that might be a good deal but any time you pay $150 for a computer you know you are getting crap. Keep in mind that you will also need a monitor to go with that, which will put your price up maybe $50-150 depending on how nice a monitor you want. I guess it wouldn't be too fancy if the computer is so old.

Answer 8

sounds all good but all those specs are old so i'd say the price it a little bit to much cause just a little bit more u could buy a band new one from dell for 3 or 4 dallors maybe cheaper

Answer 9

for the price ya lol u aint gonna find a computer ne where for that price even if its s.hit so its worth it even if its kind of slow the only thing u might need to upgrade is the harddrive but also u have to wonder is the sumthing wrong with it>?ne questions email me-nate

Answer 10

NO just save a few more dollars and buy a inspiron dell laptop it's only 499 right now :D