Options for buying a computer.

[Amanda Lee]

http://www.compusa.com

they have a number of refurbished computers pretty cheap with warranty
as well as most popular brands of desktop and notebook.

I just bought a Fujitsu Notebook two days ago from Best Buy.

Although I did a lot of looking online on:

http://www.bestbuy.com

I did purchase my Notebook from a local store but I already knew what I
wanted and just went in and asked them to bring the one I had on hold to
the Customer Service area.  It was very helpful to go online because the
kind of assistance one finds in a retail store, even Comp USA and Circuit
City and places that are supposed to be selling these items, is not worth
one's frustration and time of day!  I asked for a PCMCIA N Wireless
Network card for my Notebook.  What did he show up with?  A PCI card and
they didn't have the one for the NOtebook or he didn't have the
wherewithal to look!

I also did a bit of research on the various vendor sites for Hewlett
Packard, Fujitsu and others.

Another place who has a lot of refurbished and discontinued models is:

http://www.consumerdepot.com

Can always just use a favorite Search Engine and find lots of other info
out there as well as places to buy.  What I've indicated
are definitely
not all available choices.  I had certain constraints like an 18 months at
zero percent interest coupon for Best Buy which best suited my own budget
<smile>!


Amanda Lee

Alexandria, VA



On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ron Marriage wrote:

> Wal-Mart now sells computers online, without any OS.
> Prices start at $399 for 1 Ghz models.
>
> Ron
>
>
> Anna Schneider wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone.  If my message isn't very clear, I appologize ahead of time.
> > I've had a very frustrating day in computer research lnd.  Even knowing
> > that Linux isn't mainstream, I didn't know things would be this difficult,
> > so if I'm a bit hard to follow, that's why.
> >
> > What I want to know is, short of building my own computer, are there any
> > options for either buying a computer with Linux already installed or for
> > buying a computer with no operating system on it to begin with?  Dell will
> > only install on business systems, and Compaq's web site claims that
> > several versions of Linux are among the operating systems they offer, but
> > when I called the number listed, I didn't get any people, I only got "You
> > live in Seattle Washington, Compaq computers are available at these
> > locations."  Mutter mutter mutter.
>
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