looking for a reasonably priced beginner's computer for my great grandson who just turned 3 years old.would like to know where i can buy one.
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visit http://www.newegg.com
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Dell sells some that are pretty good.\nhttp://www.dell.com\n\nAlso, check out the old thinkpads on Ebay. I almost bought one of those because they are good machines, and go for about $250-300. \nhttp://www.ebay.com\n\nFinally, TigerDirect sells some. I've never heard any complaints about them.\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com
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Well building it yourself would be a good choice, other than that, I would say try here:http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/ you should be able to configure something that will play games at high quality, maybe not the highest quality for only $1200, but still at high quality.  If you want further help on building your own, or on what parts to put into a prebuilt one, give me an email, it is in my profile.
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Let us know what the closest main city is for help.  I find local computer places are much better than the big box stores.  Especially price-wise.  Look in your yellow pages for a store that services computers and sells re-furbished ones.  They're the ones that will use the parts they have on hand instead of trying to sell you special order stuff, or a whole new computer for that matter.
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The above is a good choice... now just shop around and get a good price on it.\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/\nhttp://www.newegg.com/?CMP=KNC-overturesmx&ATT=hp
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Built my first computer,about as hard as a snap together model I used to build when I was little. Biggest worry, static electricity.\nSure, there are some cheap computers out there. But once you get what you want added on, you'll be surprised at how high that price will go. Not only that but upgrading certain things will be impossible or just a downright pain in the butt. \nIf you're looking for the minimum, just buy one. If you're looking to for something a little nicer with some goodies and may want to upgrade or add on as you go, build it yourself.\nAlso, if you have the time, check some of the deal websites out there, they can make things MUCH cheaper with rebates and sales for certain items. An example...you might find a hard drive you want for $80, but catch the deal and you might get a $40-$60 rebate. slickdeals.net is a favorite of mine.
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you can try your local library. i'm not sure if stores like best buy or circuit city rents out computers.
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Tigerdirect.com or Newegg.com. are a couple of good places to shop.I prefer Tigerdirect because they have a lot of special offers and a lot of rebates.
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Try Shopping http://www.newegg.com  their you will also get good pricing and customer reviews from people that own them\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com also has good pricing but watch out for their customer service it is not verry good if you have a problem.
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DO NOT buy the 400 dollar bargain machines!!!!!!!!!\n\nI do in-home technical support and too often the clients that purchase these machines complain that they run just like the old one in about 6 months.  The bargain PC's are great if you know how to upgrade the machine yourself and plan on doing so later.  If you dont know how to work on a PC then do yourself the favor of shelling out another 300 dollars to get the next model up.\n\nDual Channel is a Memory technology.  If you dont plan on gaming or doing any high powered video editing, you dont really need it.\n\nlook for the following:\n\nprocessor: 2.5GHz Pentium 4 and up, OR 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon and up.  You will not notice a difference between AMD and Intel processors.  They will function exactly the same. Typically, AMD processor machines are 20-50 dollars cheaper (or the same price with more bells and whistles) than a comparable Pentium machine.\n\nRAM (Memory): AT LEAST 512MB... try for higher if possible.\n\nHard Drive (storage space):  80GB and up.\n\nVideo Card: any video card made by intel is total junk!  If the machine advertises an intergrated intel video processor take it with a grain of salt.  integrated video processors use the computer's RAM which saps performance from your machine.  Try to find a PC with an Nvidia or ATI video card of some kind.  Most people will tell you that if you dont game this isnt necessary... Im telling you that youll sacrifice a bit of speed.  Remember, you can always install an Nvidia or ATI card later on fairly cheap and easy.\n\nCD/DVD burner:  standard these days.  most computers will come with them.  Just make sure that if you want to COPY CD's and DVD's that you have CD/DVD BURNER and a DVD READER drive.
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I accept used computer parts for shipment to 3rd world countries to be used by less priviledged kids in schools. The parts should not be so old.\n\nThanks.
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NO... johnny is talking rot. goto your local community education service provider, or your local library and they will have alist of FREE computer lessons, aimed at exactly your age group... (over 50) \n\nhow do i know..i teach computers at the local community centre..and its all subsidised, funded, and totally free. \n\nobviously i dont know where you are... but in most big cities, its freely available... the NRF/adult education/ and dozens of other agencies exist to facilitate this stuff... they want us to embrace the technology...but not at ten quid a throw. \n\ntype WEETC into google... its the willenhall education employment and training centre... in coventry.. now you know why we call it the weetc.... no one can pronnounce it...but thats what we call it.. \n\ngood luck and well done.
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Sorry I missed the point for so long -- edited 2/23/06:\n\ngo to http://www.google.com\n\nfor your search use: Presario SR1638 Desktop\njust as you typed it for this question\n\ngoogle recommends you press "enter" instead of clicking search, but, both work well.\n\nThis will provide access to many reviews specific to Presario SR1638 Desktops as well as comparisons with other computers, places to buy, manufacturers website, etc.\n\nPerhaps more information than you had intended. For most google searches it is a waste of time to go to the second or more pages of a given search result. Read the blurbs on the first page and choose your 'information poison'. One can spend hours exploring all the links on the first page. The second and following pages provide more obscure references the further you go.\n\nIf you are amused by the foibles of machine relevance, dig down a few pages.\n\nIt is likely that google will find personal web pages with the information you want, but, since most personal web page writers are search-engine clueless you will have to dig through a lot of garbage to find them.\n\n\n!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, this doe not work in this case but it does well 80% of the time.\n\n'Presario Desktop' gives lots of garbage to work on. If you were to write about your computer on your web page, would you think of using the model number many many times to improve the search engine placement of your comments? Would you add the model number to your meta-tags so the search engine can find your page more easily? Imaging how much more work the search engine could accomplish if we humans would only be more cooperative.\n\n!!!!!!!!! This addition helps about 10%, but not in this case.\n\nhttp://www.pricegrabber.com collects user reviews but does not have them for every product. Most are from only a few days experience and of limited value.\n\n\n!!!!!!!! True, but no help in this case.\n\nThere is some support for the idea that Presario and SR1638 do not refer to the same item. For example: in the fine print of an add for "Compaq Presario SR1638nx-b Desktop PC Bundle" is the information "CPQ SR1638 NX-B Desktop" which does not really fall under 'Presario' according to HP. It shows up under 'Hewlett Packard OfficeMax'. Apparently this is a limited edition Presario designed to specifications provided by OfficeMax. Since OfficeMax is no longer intending to stock this item, it has become available to the "bargain market" until the current stock runs out.\n\n!!!!!!!!!! Fascinating , but what does this mean?\n\nSomeone at OfficeMax had a bright idea for a computer system. Hewlett Packard agreed this bright idea might sell and the CPQ SR1638 NX-B Desktop was produced exclusively for OfficeMax distribution. The reason these computers are now entering the internet market may be nothing more than the end-of-contract inventory at either company.\n\nThe user information you are looking for went to OfficeMax Stores in customer rants – pro or con. People who buy their computer at OfficeMax are not likely to spend time on the internet (in the somewhat doubtful event they actually do spend time on the internet) commenting about their computer. They have more important / better things to do. My impression of the OfficeMax target population is 1) middle class or better 2) business-busy / spare-time-challenged. 3) possibly internet-authoring challenged -- they read but do not bother writing.
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I would go with newegg.com  they are a great company.  But if you want to compair prices go to http://www.pricewatch.com there you can get the prices of computer parts and barebone systems.  This way you can either piece together your own system or get is barebones.
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bestbuy.com\nThey have really good computers like this one \n\nhttp://www.bestbuy.com/?ref=39&loc=01&afsrc=1
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Where?!?!?!?!  I already have my credit card out, just point me in the right direction.  In all seriousness, you can get one for $400, but NOT with all the trimmings, in fact it probably won't have any trimmings.  $700 to $1500 is still what I would call pretty decent range for a good laptop.
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It really depends upon your budget.  You might look in the local newspaper or if your parents are willing to help in the search go to google and search for "used laptops" or "refurbished laptops".  The online sites often offer less expensive options than local sites.  My son is in 8th grade and all you need to browse the web is 128MB of RAM and an older P3 or even a P2 laptop.  I'm not sure what the issue is with your existing desktop.  If you are on a modem, then the issue is more the speed of your link to Internet than the computer itself.