Decent office system fo $250-$300 range?

[Mr. LL]

Anyone know of a good deal at the moment for a system in the 250-300 range? My wife needs it for general office type work and surfing, no gaming or anything. I will probably put Win 7 pro or ultimate on it and upgrade my PC with Win 7 too, they will be networked together.

This is about the best one I have found, I can get a monitor from them for another $80 or so.
HP De-Branded Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz 2GB 320GB DVD±RW No Operating System HP TS-0006A-AMDX633
***HP De-Branded Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6GHz 2GB 320GB DVD±RW No Operating System


This one looks decent too but I'm not sure about the CPU. Has a monitor.
eMachines ET1831-01 Desktop with Intel® Celeron® Processor & 18.5" LCD Monitor
***eMachines ET1831-01 Desktop with 18.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor

 

[patonb]

At that price, i'd build an AMD based onboard gpu setup.

With grabbing deals off of egg, it'll be easy to do...

 

[Mr. LL]

After thinking about it I may go up to $400. I may go for a build but I figured it may be cheaper to just buya system since it is lower end.

 

[Muffin Man]

this looks like a good deal also. comes with a monitor and vista home premium, $330.

Newegg.com - eMachines ET1300-02 18.5" Widescreen LCD Athlon X2 4850e(2.5GHz) 3GB DDR2 160GB NVIDIA GeForce G100 Windows Vista Home Premium - Desktop PCs

IMO its a better deal than the emachines you had originally linked. this one has a dual core vs a single core and they both come with a monitor, an OS, and 3gigs of ram. only thing is that this one has half the hdd space (only a 160gb hdd)

 

[Trotter]

Inspiron Zino HD
Base model starts at $229 w/Athlon 2650e, Vista Basic, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD, DVD+/-RW, HD3200 GFX. bump it up to an Athlon X2 3250e for $60, Win7 Home Premium 64-bit for $30, 4GB RAM for $69 for a total of $388.

 

[aliasaid]

muffin man's pick includes a monitor, so its tough to beat.

 

[Mr. LL]

Thanks for the info and links guys. I like both options it gives me something to think about.

If I were to immediatly upgrade to Win 7 before I even used the PC could I sell the copy of Vistaor is it like a bundled version where you can only install it on a specific PC? I've always built up to this point so I have never bought a premade system.

 

[patonb]

Its a version just for that machine line.. There isn't usually a disk, but a partion, so you wouldn't have anything to sell anyway

 

[Mr. LL]

I just saw this on tiger direct, I could get that and a monitor from computergeeks for about $390, this seems like a great deal for the price.

In your opinion do you think I should wait for black friday/cyber monday or is this as good a deal I will find then.

TigerDirect.com
19" ViewSonic VA1926w DVI 720p Widescreen LCD Monitor (Black) ViewSonic VS11756 VA1926W-3

I have only shopped a lot one year during the thanksgiving weekend specials so I'm not really familiar with it.

 

[aliasaid]

lol, that is a POS package. Extremely old and crappy parts! Definitely look elsewhere.