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To: absalom01
Over the last several years I've been able to put state-of-art computers together for myself, family, and friends for about $600 - $750, excluding monitors, mainly from parts bought at MarketPro shows around the D.C. area. I'm guessing that the little Ma & Pa stores that put systems together have to buy more parts than they need to get good price breaks, and then sell off the excess mother boards, disks etc. etc. at the shows. Flat panel monitors or anything terribly unusual could be bought from pricewatch.com or ebay.

By contrast, the computers I've seen being sold at stores for under $1000 have always appeared to be things which have sat on shelves for a year and a half or more and are not fully up to date.

39 posted on 08/10/2002 1:08:39 PM PDT by medved
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To: medved
Through a set of chaotic events, I ended up shipping back to the U.S:

1) My old machine as a Linux machine and

2) A new machine with 2 AMD high speed advanced CPU's on the motherboard (I forget the specs); a mirrored pair of 80 GIGABYTE HD's; a high level video board; 1 GIG Registered RAM upgradable to 4 GIG . . . etc. and an interesting miscommunication--I asked for a flat panel . . . surprised that a 19" would cost approx $500 U.S. . . . only to discover that the shop guy thought I meant a flat faced CRT. . . so I settled for a 15" LCD.

I'm curious, what is Registered memory cost in the U.S. and what do 19" LCD's cost in the U.S.?
124 posted on 08/12/2002 10:42:43 PM PDT by Quix
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