Good or Bad Deal ?

[jacko lah]

A work collegue has just offered me the following computer now surplus to requirements :

Is is worth £90 ?

Mini Tower + Keyboard + Mouse

Jetway M Board with USB

AMD 650Mhz Processor

Maxtor 40Gb HDD

256Mb RAM

64Mb Nvidea Geoforce2 Graphics

Soundblaster 128 Sound Card

Liteon 16x DVD, 48x CDRW (Combo)

56k HAM Modem

Network Card



Software

Choice of operating systems (Millenium or XP Pro)

MS Office 2004

Publisher

Photoshop v7.0

Paintshop v8.0

Nero (CD Burning)

Power DVD

Sophos Virus Checker

Etc., etc., etc….

[jh_007]

Hi -

It'll be MS Office 2003 (there is no 2004)

Looks like a pretty good deal. I'd double the memory to 512mb to aid speed with a 600mhz processor.

James.

[plotloss]

Yes.

[slinky]

it'd be a cracking little server for me... why do none of my colleagues/friends ever offer me deals like that!!!

[_dobbo_]

If the software is legit then that's about 600 squids worth of software alone.. I'd snap it up.

[simpo two]

The software seems better/later than the hardware - would it struggle?

[chris watton]

Yes, it would struggle, you certainly wouldn't be able to do much more than Word processing and surfing the net, in fact, I'm pretty sure those Office suites demand a higher spec CPU. (don't even try and use Photoshop! I have a 3.4GHz CPU, 1GB of fast memory and the latest ATI 256 MB GFX card, and some files still take time to load!)
I would buy it ONLY if the software is LEGIT, if not, that PCs about ready for the PC dinosaur graveyard

>> Edited by chris watton on Tuesday 17th August 20:56

[MickC]

For normal office work and web surfing, it would be fine IMHO. You didn't mention monitor, but 90 for base unit is OK.

As already said, stick another 256MB ram in it if you want to do anything else. Don't expect it to be quick, just adequate.

[mcflurry]

Its probably worth the 90 squid, and you will probably get half of that back if you sell it after a year.

(Alternatively you could use the 90 squid and buy another Cav - lol)

[Liszt]

It's higher speced than my current work box, and I am running XP with Office 2003 without problems.

I also have a few development tools and it only occaisionally chugs away.

£90 is a bargain. You could just turn it into an MP3 jukebox for that.

[Whoozit]

I sold a similarly specced machine to a fairly knowledgeable chap for £50 with no software and we were both happy, so I'd say that's a bargain.