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08-21-2006, 12:42 AM
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Originally Posted by JamesH
Yea, but think about it. It includes a $240 flat panel monitor (which was what attracted me to this deal, because i want a flat panel). It also comes with a copy of Windows XP (which can be useful, whether its for this system or not) so thats around $100. Then with 1 GB of ram and a processor which i'm almost 100% sure is faster than my current, this is a deal thats pretty hard to pass up.
That license of XP is only for the Dell Machine, it's licensed to that machine only, since they are using a imaged harddrive, and that cd looks for the computer name, and if the computer name is different then the CD won't work. I had this problem myself.