the deal is dead now? I don't see any monitor included in the price $329 now.

I am not sure I need to call the customer service to wave shipping fee before or after placing order?

I could not do it.
I found that I had to purchase through the link.
i even called them to order it and the guy could not push the sale price nor the 5% discount through.

If you guys aren't able to get free shipping. Use your own UPS or Fedex account. I used my own fedex account and had them shipped. I didn't see a way to quote the price but it will be a lot less than $150. Probably around the $50-$60 dollar range.

great deal

I have one and I like it. It is running XP and it is very fast for internet use. I got it from the old deal at http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/arcmessageview.php?catid=74&thre...

i am interested in this deal but I wondering about the case, it is slim so will this be a problem adding things like firewire card and a video card?
and seems like it is worth it to pay $50 for ultra sharp digital display right?

Has anyone received theirs yet? Does anyone know what brand power supply it uses? In the above link it shows that it uses a Bestec power supply. These were the problematic psu's that many people had problems in their eMachines. In fact, that is why I am looking to get this, to replace my eMachines whose psu went and damaged the motherboard.

By the time I add in the word/excel, upgrade to 250gb & upgrade to Intel® Core™2 Duo E7200 (2.53GHZ, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066FSB), it's over 600.00, seems like a lot, is there another machine I should be looking at?

Here are my specs for 606.00 Can someone tell me if this is worth it? I need a system that has word/excel, we run AOL & Itunes along with Word or Excel all at once and it is killing our current machine, we are always out of memory, out of space.... having said that, have I equipped this thing too greatly?

My System Details
Intel® Core™2 Duo E7200 (2.53GHZ, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic, Service Pack 1
Microsoft® Office Basic 2007 Edition (Word, Excel, Outlook)
1 Year Basic Limited Warranty and 1 Year NBD On-Site Service
Dell 19 inch Widescreen E1909WFP Analog Flat Panel Display
3GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHZ - 2X1GB+2X512MB
Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Dell Energy Smart Enabled
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
No Floppy Drive
No Modem Option
McAfee Total Protection for Small Business, 30-day subscription
Service
Free Microsoft Office Live Small Business
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Dell A525 2.1 Speakers w/ Subwoofer, 30W
Dell USB Keyboard
Dell Scroll Mouse
My Services & Warranties
No Onsite System Setup
No Online Data Back Up Installed
Purchase is not intended for resale.
Also Included
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Windows Vista™ Basic
Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
No ISP requested

If your system is over 499 you get free shipping, however some people have called and had their shipping adjusted (because they asked)... but others haven't been lucky like that.