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Ray? I dunno, dude. When it comes to Denon stuff and that remote you sell out of your car trunk you're "The Man". But you're having on off-Monday on this one!
Mark you know better than to listen to those OLD guys. (Whoops! Wait a minute! I mean those old NY guys. Fugedaboudit!)
Jack
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Re: OT: Refurb PCs from eCost?
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Yer killin' me. BOTH of you.
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Actually regarding the E-Cost refurb PC's I bought a HP 645c from them and it works very well. It was an athlon xp 3200+ with 512mb of ram, dvd-rom, dvd+rw burner, 9 different card readers etc. Good deal for just under $500 US. Even with shipping and exchange to Canada it was under $750 cdn. I believe this model is still available.
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tigerdirect.com didn't come up? It's a reputable internet store for computer parts. Ray is not sending you anywhere odd. I personally prefer newegg.com, and sometimes outpost.com has the best prices, but tigerdirect is a perfectly respectable place...
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Actually, TigerDirect did come up when I tried it later but, yes, their server seemed to be down for a bit.
I do know that they have a good reputation, I just wanted to pick on Ray a little! 
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Told ya so! Told ya so!
Sniff.
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I feel like I can make a quick decision as I've been keeping an eye out for them for awhile.
I saw this tonight at Staples: Compaq PC.
It's got a $50 instant rebate, bringing it down to $379. I'll add another 256Mb of RAM, and get this monitor for $129 after rebate as well.
Much as I like Dells, this'll be $130 cheaper than the Dell with the same software, there's no shipping cost, I can take it home tomorrow to pre-configure instead of waiting the two weeks for delivery, then take it to them this weekend to get it set up.
Win-Win-Win.
Thanks for all the help, everyone...
Yes, that includes you too, Ray! 
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by preconfigure i hope you mean whipe it clean and load a plain jane version of xp home on there. because those compaq's and hp's are so cheap because they come equiped with there own spyware and adware. get the dell the warranty is better. if you have warranty issues they will send you the part first and you send back the dead one after. compaq/hp makes you send them the whole pc for them to repair kind of annoying trust me. i have dealt with tech support numerous times for all manufactures and dell has always been one of the better ones. even after they started outsourcing. $130 is not much more when you factor in you are self employed and time is money.
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because they come equiped with there own spyware and adware
Can you tell me where you heard this? Granted, I haven't dealt with consumer models of thier PCs -- just workstations and servers -- but it sounds fishy to me.
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i have not heard it i have seen it. if you do a fresh restore on an hp or compaq then run either spybot or adaware you will get a ton of entries. and every thing thats loaded in all is set to run on startup. its ridiculous.
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