where to buy a new system.

[John Abreau]

Paul Lussier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A colleague at work just asked me what internet site I would recommend
> for buying generic PCs.  Since I'm rather a cheapskate^H^H^H^H^H^H,
> er, more selective about what to spend money on than I am wrt
> computers, I tend to live on, shall we say, The Decaying Edge of
> technology (my current system is a dual PIII 450 from circa 1999, I
> bought in 2002 used :)
> 
> As a result, I have no idea where one would go to buy a new PC,
> on-line, or otherwise.  Obviously one could google for this, but the
> likelihood of picking a reputable vendor out of those results is a
> closer-to-zero prospect than I'd like :)
> 

The last few machines I bought were barebones system from mwave.com. I'd 
buy the hard drive separately, and reuse video and sound cards from the 
machines I was retiring. I've found mwave to be reliable.

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