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techy
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| Thats not too bad man, when I was 16 I dropped $2300 into my first PC. Actually into parts to build the PC. After frying a motherboard and a harddrive I got it working... Luckily I got new MoBo And HD for free though. |
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jt09
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City: Austin
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 6:26 am Post subject: Re: My most expensive purchase - UGH! |
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my how times have changed!
| jt09 wrote: | | I got a HELL of a deal on a Dell Inspiron E1705 ( 17" screen!!! ) that retails at $2194. Used a coupon from apex for $750 off and ended up at $1563 w/ tax, delivered. |
| jt09 wrote: | Pretty sweet setup:
17" mon
1.83GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
1GB mem
60 GB 5400rpm hard drive
256MB video card
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just picked up a 15" toshiba for $825 including tax/shipping:
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-4005U Processor, (3M Cache, 1.70GHz)
Microsoft® Operating System Windows 7 Professional (Windows 8.1 Pro license and recovery media included)
Memory 12GB DDR3L 1600MHz SDRAM (8GB + 4GB)
Hard Disk Drive 1TB (5400rpm, Serial ATA) |
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ohsix
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Joined: 12 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| If Paycom has taught us anything, it's that the price of technology goes down over time. |
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STPHNSN23
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| damn. lcap, darin, haugy, dp, all the former posters ITT. |
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Broccoli B
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Since you have the recovery media, swap that slow-ass 1TB drive out for a SSD and you'll have one nice, fast computer.
a 5400RPM drive is really going to slow that machine down.
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jt09
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 7:25 am Post subject: |
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Broccoli B, do the legwork and link me a ssd for cheap and i'll consider it!  |
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wakeboarderdave1
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 7:42 am Post subject: |
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Would this be a good choice? It's a hybrid ssd from seagate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340
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pyrocasto
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Or a a hard drive that is both. They now have drives with small SDs for a cache, so you get the speed of an SSD for the most part, and the storage of a regular HD. 
LOVE my SSD though, worth it in every way. Cut my boot up time in half, down to 8-9 seconds.
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Broccoli B
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 8:57 am Post subject: |
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I just bought a refurbished Dell Latitude E6410 and then purchased this Crucial M500 120GB SSD.
This Drive gets good reviews, i went out off http://www.tomshardware.com reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148693
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chavez
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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This is a good balance if you want space and speed.
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pyrocasto
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| Posted: Mar 14, 2014 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that is a good product, probably the best choice for the average person. Full SSD will just get better battery life, create less heat, and be less susceptible to damage/loss of info. Most laptops now days are running cooler and have better batteries too though.
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Aubs
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| Posted: Mar 16, 2014 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| Loved my Toshiba laptop JT. Good purchase! |
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