How Can I Cut The Cost Of This Computer? I Need A Comp. For Burning My Downloaded Music, Surfing Online,school

Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 10:47 am

PROCESSOR AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (2.0GHz/1MB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium edit
LCD PANEL 15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display with TrueLife™(glossy) edit
MEMORY 2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 DIMM edit
HARD DRIVE Size: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive edit
VIDEO CARD ATI RADEON® Xpress1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (Integrated) edit
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio edit
BATTERY OPTIONS 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery edit
WIRELESS CARDS Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps) edit

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6 Responses to “How Can I Cut The Cost Of This Computer? I Need A Comp. For Burning My Downloaded Music, Surfing Online,school”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Hi,
    If there is an option for 1GB RAM you could drop to that – but NOT any lower…
    You could also go for a lower spec (slower) processor, e.g. drop the AMD Turion 64 for something like the AMD Sempron 3500+ instead.
    In addition consider dropping from a 15.4 WXGA screen to a 14.1 WXGA
    …apart from that I would keep the rest.
    Had you also checked the DELL Outlet store for any last minute bargins?
    http://www.dell.com/content/default.aspx
    Regards
    Marc Liron
    Microsoft MVP
    http://www.marcliron.com
    .

  2. kill b Says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Well…you can leave out the genuine windows vista and get a copy of them from a friend or download with a torrent.
    You can teke a 80 GB Hard disk instead of 120,also can take an old monitor (CRT) instead of the new one (TFT)
    Finally you can get a cheaper sound card and graphic card.

  3. Anonymous Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 1:37 am

    well you haven’t told us the cost so it pretty hard to tell you what you should do.

  4. sup3r.du Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 4:06 am

    Memory has nothing to do with holding your data(songs). That’s the hard drives job. You could cut the memory down to 1gb (it’s @ 2gb in the config) but that’s not going to save you a lot. I assume this is a laptop so there’s not a lot you can cut out. If you’re looking for a cheap laptop look at ebay for a used one. You don’t need a really powerful machine to surf and burn cds.

  5. Walking on Sunshine Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Running Vista you can’t. Vista is a memory hog and you will need all the power you can get to run it and do all the other stuff you want. For a less expensive easier to use option look at Apple products they have a much simpler platform and higher memory capacity. Good Luck!

  6. James C Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    Drop from 2 gigs of ram to 1 and a half gigs. Go with the basic version of Vista and maybe change the monitor to a more basic model. You could also downgrade the graphics card but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you went to the basic version of Vista because Vista requires a good graphics card for the Aero feature. You could make probably $120 saving on these.