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Thread ID: 58458 2005-06-01 08:46:00 What's it worth? Billy T (70) PC World Chat
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360313 2005-06-01 08:46:00 Friend has been offered a cheap computer from a business contact, he's not into gaming etc and it sounds OK for his needs.

Dell Optiplex GX240
Small Form Factor model
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz CPU
128MB Ram, 40GB HDD
Floppy& CD-Rom (no burner)
Includes 17" Monitor, keyboard & mouse

Windows XP Pro COA license but
no software installed (I can provide, since the license is included).

What's a fair price?

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
360314 2005-06-01 08:54:00 before he buys i would get more ram, 128mb is nothing!

$300 maybe, im not sure
Prescott (11)
360315 2005-06-01 09:53:00 $200 to $300. JJJJJ (528)
360316 2005-06-01 10:05:00 $200 to $300.
I'd also say $300 max -my ideal would be $250ish. Ram is far from being enough if your friend may want to upgrade to Windows XP in the future. Even with 2000, its barely enough. The price only because it's a set with monitor, otherwise it'd be worthless
techie (7177)
360317 2005-06-01 10:48:00 Sounds like $250-$300 is the go, extra RAM is cheap and his needs are very limited.

If he buys it will end up with XP-Pro loaded at no additional cost so that seems to be a reasonable deal. He can surf with it and do WP & simple graphics, and he'd never use anything more powerful so why spend more money?

When I think about it, the XP COA has got to be worth just about that.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
360318 2005-06-01 11:35:00 When I think about it, the XP COA has got to be worth just about that.

Indeed. Sorry~ I thought it was Windows 2000 COA that was coming with it. I'd say definitely need more Ram if he decides to use anymore than say 1/4 of his hard disk or want more than 2 windows opened at the same time. My old PC struggled to work for me with just 128mb ram.
techie (7177)
360319 2005-06-01 22:29:00 Still $300 max. Cicero (40)
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