New Computer
 

I'm about to get a new computer pc, and I'm goin to get pne in Costco. What brand do you recommend? Hewlett Packard, Sony, or Compaq? I'm was willing (sp?) to spend $1500 (without including tax yet until the checkout line).

Don't buy a brand name. Have one built.

Yeah I know. I want a GeForce 4 Video Card. The comp. I want has to at least have 512 MB DDR Ram, 80 Gb hard drive space, Pentium 4 2.53 GHz processor etc.

No, no no
 

Right here is a list of PCs which would cost from highest to lowest

Lowest Price

Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz
128mb Ram
30gb Hard Dtive
Windows XP
GeForce 2

Medium

Intel Pentium 2.3Ghz
256mb Ram
50gb Hard Drive
Windows XP
Geforce 4

Highest Price

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
512MB DDR RAM
120gb Hard Drive
Windows XP
Geforce 4

Personally as i did last christmas i would go for the highest spec one.

Re: No, no no
 

How much was it? The computer I'm looking towards getting has a base cost of $2,659.00.

I've seen that Sony has their VAIO with pretty much those specs. The PC I used to have at home (till I left) had basically those characteristics, except that the processor wasn't as fast. (oh, and I don't remember exactly which video car it had, but it could run pretty much ABSOLUTELY anything I would install on it)

I'm still in the doubt of building one of my own or just getting another VAIO or maybe a Dell, the problem right now is that I'm broke :B

I have a Sony Vaio laptop which is defintley in the highest spec because it kicks azz and it was about the £1800 mark.

The Sony Vaio is the way to go if you are going to spend that much. I looked around at Best Buy today and those are about the same specs. I think it only came with 60 GB of Hard Drive space though. But I think for $200.00 more you could get 2-3x as much. Plus it comes with nice speakers and a cd burner.

Plus the 15 inch flatscreen is the best price out of the name brand ones.

The latest specs I have seen form Sony in that price range are:

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
512mb DDR RAM (Upgradable to 1024mb)
120gb HDD
WINDOWS XP
Ge Force 4 (Blood Advacne Pack???)
CD-RW or DVD-RW
52x CD
1.44 mb Floppy

I GOT IT! It was the HP media center one. The black one. I Got it l 2 week's ago Friday. I got it at Circuit City.

512 MB DDR RAM
147 GB of Space (could add more to 160)
2.66GHZ Pentium 4
GeForce 4 128 MB Video Card
Sb Audigy Audio 9000 (sound card I think)
Klipsch Lucasfilm THX Speakers with a freaken subwoofer (lolz)
NEC 17' Monitor
50 CD-R cd'z

(the computer was used for 2 days, not the speakers just the hard drive, so the subtracted $300

Total: $2,400

I didn't expect that I would get this computer actually.