[SGVLUG] Shopping for computer for father-in-law...

[matti]

Hi,

When do you need it by? 

if (Soon)
  I would keep an eye out on back to school specials.
else
  best deals seem to be around thanksgiving
endif

Do you need to connect to any older peripherals?

If so watch out, as most of the newer stuff comes
without the "legacy" ports. 
( such as I really want to connect to a couple old but still
very good laser printers.. )

Also, many of the basic systems comes with limited 
power supplies... no a big deal for most, unless you
want an extra GPU which needs more power.

If you need it soon, here's a quick look what I found
Currently Staples has a i5 for $600... from their weekly AD 
http://www.staples.com/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-1256s-Desktop-PC/product_937659

Costco has a i7 Version for $600 ( way better :-)
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11771214&whse=BC&Ne=5000135%204000000&eCat=BC|84|4797&N=4001604%204294899772&No=17&Mo=16&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US
( note the Costco I have seen it hit some of the deals sites.. getting 4 out of 5 "hotness" on dealnews.. )

thanks


----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>
To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:30 AM
Subject: [SGVLUG] Shopping for computer for father-in-law...

Goal: reasonably future-proof system for under $500 without monitor.

There are plenty of crappy expensive systems out there
(e.g. Celerons, Pentiums, A8's, ...).  I'm looking for an
i3 or i5 that's a little future-proof.

I'd consider a Chromebox, though they don't have i3 or i5 versions yet
as far as I can tell.

http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops seems like
it points to a few good deals (e.g. at the moment it points
out that you can get a Dell Inspiron 620 MT with an i5-2320,
6GB RAM, and 1TB hard drive for $499... but Dell's own
site kinds of finds that deal for you, too.

http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops points
to an i7 for $600 (a bit over his budget).

Looks like Dell pushes the i3-2120 and the i5-2320;
the former is a 2 core, the latter has twice the cores as well
as twice the L1, L2, and L3 cache, and is about 1.5 times the
throughput on some benchmarks.

Any reason to not just point him at the cheapest i5 dell?
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