OT, XP; new computer question

Even if you do you can buy it seperately for well under half that price.

Here's an example.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Adata.html

 

Dell are offering new XP Home machines for as little as £309 delivered to my
door, but they only have 256Mb of ram in them. To get 512 Mb of ram costs an
extra £94.

I tend to run Powerpoint, Paint, word and Excel at the same time. I don't
use gaming graphics.

Do I need 512 Mb to make XP run properly?

John

 

If by "properly" you mean, "a lot more smoothly and without shagging your
hard drive", I'd go with "yes".

However, £94? **** them and their stupid pricing. http://www.crucial.com/uk/
is a good start.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Dan White said:

Those peeps at crucial are good, I've used them twice and received my
stuff next day by special delivery.

 

An extra £94 for a piffling 256MB!?

Fulk that! Robbin' bastards!

Try this link below. It starts out as the default American site but there's
a link to a dedicated UK site too.

http://www.insight.com

Don't type www.insight.co.uk because you'll go to a totally different site.

 

Even if you do you can buy it seperately for well under half that price.

Here's an example.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Adata.html

Thanks for that. I'd read that Dell machines had a requirement for Dell
specific memory - I thought it might be a fib and thought it best to ask
here.

John

 

I got some laptop memory off them. Three and a half years later it failed.
The next day a free replacement was on my desk. I was a happy bunny.

 

It would help. Personally I would never buy a Dell, and I *certainly*
would not pay GBP94 for a mere 256M RAM
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So, who would you go to for a new machine?

John

 

I build them for my clients. IME get a better machine with better value.
mail me: chris at sytemlabs.co.uk if you like
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Where I used to work most of our desktops had 256K. To be fair, it
was ok, but I'd go for a minimum of 512K. As everyone else has said
upgrade elsewhere.

 

No here. I've fitted a non-Dell CD-RW and non-Dell DVD-RW into new Dell
machines. The Dimension series at least has green plastic sliders that
you attach to the side of the drive, and the whole thing then simply
slides in and out of the bay. Couldn't be simpler. Everything is easily
accessible and labelled.

To the OP: I've also fitted DDR RAM from crucial, no problem at all.
Crucial have a selector on their website so you simply choose what make
and model you have, and they list the suitable options.

 

Just how old were these computers?

 

This was February this year and the kit was new. On my system, I had
Delphi Enterprise with Sybase clients, MS Office, Perl bits and bobs.
It really wasn't that bad just not brilliant

 

<whoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHH!>

 

<childish, nerdy snigger>

 

Wait 'till Saturday and we'll see whose laughing ;-)

 

<gulp>

 

Ah. A compiler thingy that talked to big database thingies which
would compile[0] over 2 million lines of code[1] a time. Some
typewriter type software that allowed me to send letters to people and
do hard sums in these things called cells. And a Swiss Army chainsaw.

HTH

[0] Turns the code into machine instructions by magic.
[1] Like writing with hard sums in it.

 

And that all ran in 256K did it?