<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div> Hi,<br><br>When do you need it by? <br><br>if (Soon)<br> I would keep an eye out on back to school specials.<br>else<br> best deals seem to be around thanksgiving<br>endif<br><br>Do you need to connect to any older peripherals?<br><br>If so watch out, as most of the newer stuff comes<br>without the "legacy" ports. <br>( such as I really want to connect to a couple old but still<br>very good laser printers.. ) <br><br>Also, many of the basic systems comes with limited <br>power supplies... no a big deal for most, unless you<br>want an extra GPU which needs more power.<br><br>If you need it soon, here's a quick look what I found<br>Currently Staples has a i5 for $600... from their weekly AD <br><a
href="http://www.staples.com/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-1256s-Desktop-PC/product_937659">http://www.staples.com/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h8-1256s-Desktop-PC/product_937659</a><br><br>Costco has a i7 Version for $600 ( way better :-)<br>h<a href="http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11771214&whse=BC&Ne=5000135%204000000&eCat=BC%7C84%7C4797&N=4001604%204294899772&No=17&Mo=16&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price%7C1%7C%7CP_SignDesc1&lang=en-US">ttp://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11771214&whse=BC&Ne=5000135%204000000&eCat=BC|84|4797&N=4001604%204294899772&No=17&Mo=16&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US</a><br>( note the Costco I have seen it hit some of the deals sites.. getting 4 out of 5 "hotness" on dealnews.. )<br><br>thanks<br><br> <div>----- Original Message -----<br> From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com><br> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
<sgvlug@sgvlug.net><br> Cc: <br> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:30 AM<br> Subject: [SGVLUG] Shopping for computer for father-in-law...<br> <br>
Goal: reasonably future-proof system for under $500 without monitor.<br><br>There are plenty of crappy expensive systems out there<br>(e.g. Celerons, Pentiums, A8's, ...). I'm looking for an<br>i3 or i5 that's a little future-proof.<br><br>I'd consider a Chromebox, though they don't have i3 or i5 versions yet<br>as far as I can tell.<br><br>http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops seems like<br>it points to a few good deals (e.g. at the moment it points<br>out that you can get a Dell Inspiron 620 MT with an i5-2320,<br>6GB RAM, and 1TB hard drive for $499... but Dell's own<br>site kinds of finds that deal for you, too.<br><br><a href="http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops" target="_blank">http://www.logicbuy.com/categorydeals/computers/desktops</a> points<br>to an i7 for $600 (a bit over his budget).<br><br>Looks like Dell pushes the i3-2120 and the i5-2320;<br>the former is a 2 core, the latter has twice the
cores as well<br>as twice the L1, L2, and L3 cache, and is about 1.5 times the<br>throughput on some benchmarks.<br><br>Any reason to not just point him at the cheapest i5 dell?<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>