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Sounds like a great deal, is it? [used computers]
Lardalish
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Ok, so a couple of my friends work for FunCom and that company is thinking of selling off some of their computers to employees. This sounds reasonable, they do the GMing for Age of Conan and some other stuff so they do need to keep up on the tech curve. Anyway, my friend said that if they do end up selling them that he could get me one so he sent me the email that they all got. It sounds like a great deal since my own machine runs Win2k, has a bout 500MB of ram and an 80gig HDD.
Well, this is what he sent me:
The totals are what it would retail for. So, are these actually good deals? I dont really know what kind of wear and tear a computer sustains, but I imagine they're good since Ive had mine for like 10 years and it still runs fine (its just an old piece of crap).
Well, this is what he sent me:
Weve the following machines, that we are considering selling off to employees. Emphasis on the word considering. This email is to guage interest. NO offer is being made at this time this may not come to fruition and the prices, number of items may change.
So, weve a total of 14 machines, 5 at a price of $300, 7 at a price of $400, and 2 at a price of $350. Some come with a monitor and some without.
(12:44:20 PM) Jon: 5 @ $300
Pentium D Proc 940 3.2 GHz Dual Core, 2X 2MB L2 800MHz ($75)
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 2X1 ($40)
160GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache ($50)
XP PRO SP2 ($270)
GeForce 7800 GT OC ($75)
w/ 19 in LCD Monitor ($100)
Total: $610
(12:44:25 PM) Jon: 7 @ $400
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz, 1066, 4MB L2 ($100)
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 2X1 ($40)
160GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache ($50)
XP PRO SP2 ($270)
GeForce 7950GT OC 512MB ($250)
w/ 19 in LCD Monitor ($100)
Total: $810
(12:44:29 PM) Jon: 2 @ $350
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz, 1066, 4MB L2 ($100)
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 2X1 ($40)
160GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache ($50)
XP PRO SP2 ($270)
GeForce 7950GT OC 512MB ($250)
Total: $710
The totals are what it would retail for. So, are these actually good deals? I dont really know what kind of wear and tear a computer sustains, but I imagine they're good since Ive had mine for like 10 years and it still runs fine (its just an old piece of crap).
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1) Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
2) Never trust a computer you got used and haven't reformatted yet.
Yeah, it's a good deal, but at the same time, I'd be firing up a nuke-from-orbit reformat as soon as I got the computer home and was ready to work on it. It's extreme, but at the same time, you don't know where it's been. The hard drive could look like it rolled around on the Internet's bathroom floor, or there could be stuff on there you'd know nothing about, like rootkits and spyware and other nasty garbage.
Trust, but reformat them if you buy.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
But like Jayson said, nuke them.
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