recommendations for low cost desk top (monitor included) under 1000.00?
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i would go on the dell website cause dells are pretty reasonable
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Well, on the over all market are my pics.\n\nDell - Great value all around. Wonderfull desktops. The Optiplex series has been a consistantly good system. Their laptops are pretty good too.\n\nApple - Well there's just no competition for these guys, just one small problem. $$$$$$$ Way to much! AND NO, I DON'T WANT A FREE IPOD WITH MY PURCHASE!\n\nToshiba - I've got old ones, and I have a brand new Satilite M55. There like my Toyota, I'll never get rid of em'. Toshiba, from my personal experience makes some of the best performing, if not, the longest lasting lap tops I've ever worked with. If you buy a new Satalite, you may find your self no longer using your desktop. \n\nHP - Decent desent desktops. (Personal experience). Good Laptops, from what I hear. The older HP's that were on socket 370 were fantastic. Mine is 6 years old and still runs great. Their new line of PDA's though, those are realy nice. I own one, and it's replaced almost all the tasks I use to use my laptop for. All the minor ones at lease.\n\nThe best home PC however would have to be the ones you build your self. They can be painfull to work with at times, but once you get one put together that works, it's a realy neat feeling to have it and use and to be able to stick it to everyone else who gets ripped of by Dell! (just kidding)
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computerwarehousepricelist\n\nhttp://www.computerwarehousepricelist.com/faqs-general.asp
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Its not tooo hard to buy a computer under $300. Look at http://www.craiglist.org for your area.\nThere are a lot of cheap monitors (free or $10 for 17") I have seen a  number of NEW computers for under $300, at some local stores and WalMart
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id go with a dell, dell.com has an awesome page or call them and tell them you only want to spend 1000 dollars and they'll make a notebook that will suit your needs and price target.
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Currently Dell is having a sale and you can get a decent  computer for under 500 dollars.  As long as you're not looking for some super-duper gaming/high performance PC, that might be a good choice.  Another cheap, but well regarded brand is HP.  You can customize the computer on both websites (dell.com , hp.com).  If you're able to do it, you could build your own PC, which sometimes is cheaper than buying a prebuilt one.  I would recommend Newegg.com for parts if you want to build your own.\n\nA few things to keep in mind...\n1) Desktops are cheaper than laptops\n2) Generally speaking, PC's are cheaper than Mac's\n3) The processor and the RAM are what make the computer faster.  If you aren't too worried about the speed of the computer, there's no point paying $100 extra for a Pentium D or something similar.  Celeron will do the job.  For the RAM, 256 mb is sufficient for most people.\n4)  If you're planning to store large amounts of music and/or video on the computer, you will need a larger hard drive.  Nowadays most computers don't come with less than 40 gb, but it's not too expensive to get 80 gigs or even more.\n\nHere's a link to a Dell PC that you can customize, but it's already pretty good for the price... just under $500\nhttp://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=DB110C&s=dhs\n\nAnd an HP you can customize (this is a little faster than the Dell if you're looking for more speed, but you should not just limit yourself to these two PC's, check out others on their website and customize them.  This one's base price is a little cheaper than the Dell because there's no monitor included here...)\nhttp://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?series_name=a1520y_series&catLevel=3&category=desktops/hp_pavilion/a1500_series&storeName=computer_store
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check newegg.com or tigerdirect.com
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for the best value/performance ratio, i suggest you try checking out aldi or lidl... i know it sounds crazy, but they actually use good quality components from well-known manufacturers such as pioneer and samsung... you don't end up spending money on a brand name.\n\ni got my laptop from lidl about 18 months ago and it was as good a spec as anything out there - and it's still up there, no problems whatsoever.\n\nit also has a three year guarantee, which dell will charge several hundred quid for...\n\notherwise,  toshiba machines are generally regarded as being very reliable. \n\nof course, if you're not doing a lot of gaming, pretty much any laptop will do the trick nowadays. i would advise against a laptop with shared graphics memory however...\n\ntry and get one that has its own dedicated graphics card and video memory...
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I don't think you can find all that for under $1500.  Either add more to your budget or remove some of your criteria to bring it under $1500.
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tiger direct has closeout hp's (arround $50)\n\ni have a psc1210 for everyday use & it's pretty good
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See if your town has a 'Thrifty Nickel' kind of free newspaper.  They usually have listings for used computers and accessories.  I bought an older IBM computer with Win98 and a decent monitor for $90 from a man who bought a bunch of computers from a local college.  If you can live without XP, you might do better.  You can still access the Internet and do word processing on older operating systems.\n\nIf you want to buy new, try a place like Office Depot for EMachines desktop PCs.  They've been offering some really good rebates lately.  When we get our rebates back, our new computer with XP, monitor and Canon printer will only cost $300.
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Defintely buy from Dell. www.dell.com  They have great products for a good price.  You can pick up a good quality computer for under $500.
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Go for a branded PC of HP or Dell.\n\nYou should look for P4 2.88Ghz or 3Ghz with 1 GB of RAM, 17" SVGA monitor, 180GB of HDD, Built in NIC with at least 32MB of video ram.
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You can get an hp pavilion from PC Richards for like $700 or you  can catch it on sale. You can also go to Comp.USA
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hp pavillion around $ 1,600.00 dollars\n\n:>peace
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I would suggest a GeForce 6200 from newegg.com
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Try DELL brand! They're cool!