PirateSteve said:$35 shipping and tax kills it.

here we go again............

chowskee said:Configure this without the monitor to drop it to 239.99

Ripped from Bens.

Similarly ripped from FW.

The thing I hate about my older Dell system now is the following
They have only 2 SATA ports, and no way of mounting more than 2 drives.
I can not make it into my NAS or MCE box without buying larger drives.

AlanS17 said:It's a fine price for a budget machine, ...It would probably make a fine backup PC for the kids or something, but I'd want something more heavy duty as a primary machine.

So if my current PC is a several-years-old Dell P4 2.4GHz 640MB RAM w/ Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB AGP, would this deal be a good backup PC for me?
(and yes, this is truly my current PC, and I even managed to play the Crysis demo on it)

AlanS17 said:It's a fine price for a budget machine, but it's already last generation's processors. If you understand what you're getting yourself into, it's a deal. It would probably make a fine backup PC for the kids or something, but I'd want something more heavy duty as a primary machine.

That being said... a deal is a deal, and this is probably a deal.

Heh, I'm still pimping an athlon XP in my desktop.

/On the Dell site, the image says "for illustrative purposes only". So, err, what does the box actually look like?

/laptop is a core 2 duo

I'm with you ... I have an athlon 2600 desktop ($20 from Goodwill) that does fine with XP Pro ,, until 2 years ago I still had a 486/100 machine (PS2 MDL 70 with the "BERMUDA" motherboard) around to program IC's with as it had the absolute most stable power supply and I/O ports you could find. I don't do "trendy" or gamer systems ... Use what works.

KEY POINT: The BIOS of this machine can be reloaded to enable RAID 0, 1 which makes it better than the Dell SC440 servers.

Plenty of horsepower for a Home Media Server, but I need to mount five hard drives somehow. Doesn't look like this case is nearly large enough for that, or I would be all over this.

myardor said:wat am I missing?
Is this not a repost, ie the same as this one> a few lines below?
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/853819?highlight_key=y&keyword1=Dell

You're missing the [Alert Moderators] located in the upper right corner of each post. You are able to use that to "alert" the moderators as to a repost.