Hi Ron and all,
I recently purchased a refurbished Dell Optiplex 760 from Walmart. It
came with a 1TB SATA hard drive, 3GHz core 2 duo processor, 4 GB RAM,
DVD-RW, 8 USB ports, serial and parallel port, and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. It
cost me $268 and I purchased the 3 year warranty for $47. I figure over the
next 3 years, I'll get my money's worth out of it. It was the cheapest
machine that I could find that came with Windows 7 Pro. I have had it for
about a month and so far, it is a winner. I use it daily and keep it in the
ham shack.
Jerry W5JH
"building something without experimenting is just solder practice"
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ron
Notarius W3WN
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:22 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] (ham station computer choice)
Not at all.
Dell Financial Services. That's the leasing/financing arm of Dell.
When you review the available machines, you'll see the Dell logo in the
graphic.
I mention this specifically because there are a lot of places selling
allegedly refurbished computers, and allegedly refurbished Dell machines.
Many of these are legitimate resellers. Some... well, you know. Dealing
with DFS, though, means that you're dealing with Dell.
Oh, one caution. DFS does NOT supply Dell media with the machines. So as
soon as you get one of the machines unpacked & set up, make a backup!
(Unless you have another source for the media, of course)
Also I should add that if it's important (and it is to some people), the
Optiplex 760 (and the 755's, also available from the same source) do NOT
come with keyboard/mouse ports. You'll need a USB keyboard & mouse...
which, conveniently enough, comes with the machine. AND, the machines come
with a serial & parallel port, for backward compatibility.
Good luck!
73
On 05/07/14, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
Would you mind sharing the name of the eBay seller that you got them from?
Finding a particular seller on eBay with the keywords "dell" and "optiplex"
is very needle-haystack-y.
-Neil KD0UKC
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN
<wn3vaw@verizon.net>wrote:
> FWIW:
>
> I just spent time & shekels over the last few months to upgrade all of the
> "home" computers -- mine, my wife's and my daughters.
>
> I was able to get refurbished Dell Optiplex 760's from Dell Financial
> Services. They all came with at least 2 GB of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive,
> and Windows Vista Business installed. Clean install, no other "stuff."
> And they come with a 30 day factory warranty.
>
> All three machines easily upgraded to Windows 7 Professional using the
> Dell OEM Windows 7 restore DVD. Not surprisingly, they run even better
> under Win 7 than Vista.
>
> Now... I bought the machines from DFS via eBay. So prices may vary, but
> in every case, it was less than buying comparable machine from the DFS
> outlet page on Dell's web site. In fact, I just got another one the other
> day to set up for another ham. Cost for the machine was $65, plus tax and
> $10 shipping.
>
> Anyway, this has let me phase out the old Compaq mini-towers we used the
> last few years, all of which were XP machines. If anyone would like a
> Compaq (either with 'native' XP or with Linux (Ubuntu) installed) just let
> me know and we can work something out... I hate to simply trash working
> machines...
>
> 73
>
>
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