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Posted 14 February 2013
Cheap Dell PC, Windows 8, i3 - 2130, 1tb Hard Drive, 4gb Ram, Wireless, USB 3, £276.51 + 6% Quidco
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free delivery 3XT927F3T1D3BM
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-2130 Processor (3.40GHz, 3MB)
Microsoft Operating System Windows 8 64bit
Extended Service 1 yr Next Day In-Home Service with Premium Phone Support
Protect your new PC McAfee® SecurityCenter 15 Month Subscription
Base Intel® Core™ i3-2130 Processor (3.40GHz, 3MB)
Memory 4096MB (1x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Video Card Graphics : Intel® HD
Hard Drive 1TB Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm) Hard Drive
Floppy Drive Integrated 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Optical Devices 16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write)
Sound Cards Integrated 5.1 High Definition Audio
Wireless Networking Dell Wireless DW1506 Card
Shipping Documents Documentation Inspiron Desktop 660
Dell System Media Kit Inspiron Desktop 660 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
***** check your warranty ******
recent deliveries have come up with only 10 months and not in-home.
- Musicrab
11% code 6?K4125HLLK519
free delivery 3XT927F3T1D3BM
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-2130 Processor (3.40GHz, 3MB)
Microsoft Operating System Windows 8 64bit
Extended Service 1 yr Next Day In-Home Service with Premium Phone Support
Protect your new PC McAfee® SecurityCenter 15 Month Subscription
Base Intel® Core™ i3-2130 Processor (3.40GHz, 3MB)
Memory 4096MB (1x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Video Card Graphics : Intel® HD
Hard Drive 1TB Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm) Hard Drive
Floppy Drive Integrated 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
Optical Devices 16X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write)
Sound Cards Integrated 5.1 High Definition Audio
Wireless Networking Dell Wireless DW1506 Card
Shipping Documents Documentation Inspiron Desktop 660
Dell System Media Kit Inspiron Desktop 660 Resource DVD (Diagnostic & Drivers)
***** check your warranty ******
recent deliveries have come up with only 10 months and not in-home.
- Musicrab
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sorted byGames, comfort when working for long periods, expansion and upgradability, better posture leading to less health risks, larger displays, better sound, easier/quicker to use keyboards/mice, cheaper for equivalent performance... and your tiny brain couldn't even come up with a couple of those?
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prefer my desktop with huge screen
Sorry, I'm struggling to find a 15" 1366x768 monitor, worlds tinniest speakers, a really bad keyboard and mouse, to add on to this deal so that i can compare them. I'm also not sure how to remove a lot of the additional expansion ports short of sticking chewing gum in them, or how to modify my 15" monitor to put it at a really bad height/angle so that I get neck ache after using it for a bit.
If you've got any ideas, please let me know, I'm desperate to figure this conundrum out.
Not that £20 for a decent keyboard/mouse, £15 for speakers and £65 for a 19" monitor takes it "well above" an entry level i3 laptop, anyway. Feel free to post an i3 laptop deal that is "well below" £365.
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Ordered, perfect replacement for an ageing Dell in the office. Out of the 10 or so Dell's I have, this will replace a machine running Vista which in turn will replace a windows 2000 Dell
To confirm, you get an i3, 4gb, 1tb box for £220 + the gravy delivered? Hot, hot, hot!!!
Rather than cry I want to say I appreciate you taking the time to post the deal, I was genuinely ordering something more expensive with the same spec before I seen this, perfect timing
What a sensible post. No a mention of it doing the same job as an android smartphone, or playing crysis to be seen. Are you on the correct forum?
Laptops are not as powerful and don't last as long due to the physical abuse they get, are not very upgradable and are harder to repair when they go wrong. If someone doesn't need the portability of a laptop I'd always suggest a desktop
Now where are the "I can build this for £63 with an i7, 46TB of ram and cracked Windows 9" comments?
I don't like laptops in general, I find them a nuisance. My little friend at home is a Dell Zino that I bought a couple of years ago running on a 27" Monitor, I wouldn't be without it, low power consumption and all that jazz , laptop power supply though
Android and ipads for mucking about on at home, but you can never beat a desktop Just my opinion. You can add a mouse etc to a laptop, kind of defeats the purpose though. So yeah.... laptops days are numbered, desktops will be here forever
You can't make that comparison, a desktop PC out-performs all other devices and has way more power, not to mention desktops can carry out a multitude of applications and all at the same time! Gaming (real games and not crappy stick tennis), graphic design, larger screen size, multiple displays, attach a ton of peripherals, need I go on...
Seriously? God you must be stupid... Hardcore Gaming on a laptop? Nope desktop it is... Video editing,3d animation,3d modelling, level designing, software making and the list goes on...
Stick a semi decent Graphics card in there and yeah, this will be able to play pretty much anything.
Something like this would do the trick:
ebuyer.com/370…day
It won't exactly run anything on Ultra settings, but it would be a good value little system.
So how much difference does this make on running cost? Let's say the price per Kwh is 13p and an average user would use there devices for 5 hours per day (that's 1800 hours per year).
Watts/1000 = kW
Kilowatts x Hours = kWh.
KWh x Electricity price = Running cost in pence per year
Laptop
17/1000 x 1800 = 30.6KWh
30.6 x 13 = 397.8p / 100 = £3.98 per year
Desktop and Monitor
120/1000 x 1800 = 216KWh
216 x 13 = 2808p / 100 = £28.08 per year
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Certainly, I cannot see any point of them these days with Laptops, Tablets and Smartphones doing the same job.
I do agree somewhat. I have admit I've bought several similar setups recently, however I've used Dell Outlet. In every case, the desktops have arrived in as-new condition, literally not a mark on them, and almost always come up at least 10% cheaper than the same system new.
Certainly not a bad price for a non-outlet deal, but I'd still rather buy through the outlet. For reference, my current 'office' PC is a Vostro 260s (slim mini tower), i3 2120, 2GB RAM (I upgraded to 4GB), 250GB HDD (adequate since I use external drives for meda) - it really is just a 'web browsing' machine and used for light emulation.
I paid £295 inc VAT and shipping just over a year ago (3rd Feb 2012) and that included the 3 years of Next Business Day warranty since I bought from the Small Business outlet. I think a year ago was at the height of the 'HDD price explosion', which is probably why it came with 250GB rather than a 500GB or even 1TB.
Obviously it's not a direct comparison - but personally I'll stick to the Outlet, at least if I don't mind spending time finding 'the right deal'. Had some amazing bargains from the Outlet in the past!!
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A bit like Trigger and his broom then?
Ha Ha Ha ..... you would wet your nappy ......
This probably explains why I cannot find a decent review on this laptop.
Just buy this and put the "classic shell" program on it from download.com, that will give you a start menu again.
download.cnet.com/Cla…l;1
My similar spec laptop cost me less than this almost 2yrs ago;
hotukdeals.com/dea…586
People that like this kind of comment just promote this site to become the anti social network it is. 'oh this is my first deal go easy' cba with this kind of attitude now. Could have been replied without the spiteful ending statement.
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This has HD2000 mate, appalling graphics compared to 4000.
i have one of these models, slightly different specs and in my experience there are no issues upgrading a Dell desktop - i have added a Radeon graphics card, memory, a 2nd hard drive and video capture card and it was all fine. It plays current games at reasonable frame rates (although that's mostly down to the the Radeon) - and, more impressive, it can handle Adobe CS.
Your original comment was no better than Anarchists reply...
Pointless crap is just as bad as juvenile sarcastic responses.
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People shopping for a desktop will appreciate posts like this, if you want a laptop, smartphone or inflatable gorilla... you should not be this far down on the comments list! ....move on
Thanks OP
There is no SSD in here which would massively boost performance for something around 50 quid extra. There's no Blu-Ray drive which have come down in price quite a bit in the last year or two. Inevitably, someone will want to play games on this and any integrated graphics solution may struggle on top-end games. Finally, 1TB is quite a small HDD considering a very fast Seagate 3TB drive can be had for 90 quid.
Yes, for what it's got in it, it's a good price, but for me it's not a good enough system. I'd lean towards customisable whitebox builders (e.g. Computer Planet, but there are many others) - maybe sourcing easy-to-install items elsewhere if their prices aren't competitive - if I wasn't building them myself. Yes, you'll almost certainly end up paying more overall, but you'll have a better system and won't have to go through a bunch of upgrades like you'll probably have to with this Dell.
The CPU benchmark for the i3 is 4024 link and for the i5 is 5870 link . This doesn't mean you're getting a nearly 50% faster PC for £50 as there are many other aspects involved (e.g. hard disk speed, what sort of tasks you are running, what chipset is used etc) but it does seem a substantially better CPU performance-wise for the money.
Wrong.
The problem is that you don't understand that dell did not think "we need to sell a new PC. I know what we should do - find out what rkl off hotukdeals wants and then just sell that."
If this PC is not the right spec for you, then feel free to either tick any of the upgrades that dell offer, perform the upgrades yourself (you sound like you know just enough to be capable of this?), or select a different PC from Dell or anybody else that offers the specs you want.
Not hard, is it?
This may surprise you, but lots of people just want a cheap PC to do their letters on. to go on the internet. to watch some films or do their homework. to do their online banking. and so on. There are very few people that need a PC to run VMware workstation. Or are bothered about it taking an extra 20s to boot up. Or want to store several terabytes of films (the average user has a few gigs of iTunes library and streams most their media these days).
4GB RAM is plenty for the average user. 1TB HDD is plenty for the average user. I3 is fine for the average user. SATA is plenty fast enough for the average user. Integrated Intel graphics is fine for the average user.
You are not an average user. This PC was obviously not aimed at you. If dell only shipped systems with 8gb ram, a 128gb SSD, 3tb HDD, and a GeForce 460, suddenly your decent average user PC will now cost over £500. Now, I stopped doing maths after my A levels, but I'm sure most people would be much happier paying £260 instead of over£500 if they had no need to.
You can only overclock Intel processors that come with the letter K attached to the CPU name. In other words, you cannot overclock the i5-3330.
Your processors scores an average PassMark CPU Mark of 1212. The i5-3330 comes with a PassMark of 5876. So, it will be considerably faster. If you want to overclock, you could stay with AMD. You would get better value-for-money. You can get a AMD Bulldozer FX 6100 3.3Ghz Desktop PC for as little as £230. On the other hand, if you earn your money that way than you should treat yourself with the best that you can get for your money.
By the way, your internet connection can also impact on your $$$. Ideally, you would want a LAN connection to your router. There are further ways to improve speed. Good luck.
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AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Average CPU Mark: 5406
Description: Socket: AM3+, Clockspeed: 3.6 GHz, Turbo Speed: 3.9 GHz, No of Cores: 3 (2 logical cores per physical), Max TDP: 95 W
Other names: AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor
CPU Launched: Q4 2011
CPUmark/$Price: 47.36 Overall Rank: 173
Last Price Change: $114.15 USD (2011-10-17)
Link to £230 machine: Reaper AMD Bulldozer FX 6100 3.3Ghz Desktop PC 500gb HDD 4gb DDR3 DVD Writer
It is slower than comparable Intel processor on single-thread performance but better on multi-thread performance. Thus good for some serious multi-tasking.
Get a reliable SSD. Some slow down if more than half full.
It's produced by Intel. That's all I know about it.
Home Premium. Does it matter to you?