Did ask on here a few months ago what i could get for around £600 but other things came along so didnt bother to get one , and seeing as things move sooo fast in the computer world thought i would get a fresh answer.

Looking to spend around £600 and i just want the computer , monitor , and keyboard.

DVD copier is a must. Not a big gamer so stuff for games not essential

and i also want windows vista included

cheers

 

id have a look on www.dell.co.uk
can get a decent machine with what your after for less than £600 mate

 

good advice there... you do not want anything specific or out of the world... Dell would be the place to call for good Value

 

Thing is i aint got a clue whats good or whats crap in the computer world

Im using a set up from 1998 , 450mhz processer , 8 gig Hard drive etc etc

not got a clue what im looking for to be honest

so advise me whats good at the mo

 

yeah dell is probably the best bet for a prebuilt computer, normally id always recommend someone who knows abit about pc's to build there own as then you can tailor it more to your needs and buy exactly what you want, plus save abit in the process but since you dont know anything then pre built is the only way to go, but there are good deals on the dell site so ill have a look through now

 

Depends what yo uwant it for really. Is it for general use, surfing, light video use (like the odd downloaded video clip and maybe a DVD or two) burning/ripping CD's, and MS Word etc, or is it for graphics intensive gaming, photoshop editing/graphic design, multimedia applications etc....?

Cos thats makles a big difference on the type of hardware you need fitting to it....

Put it into perspective - I bought an 18mth old Dell off ebay for £200. It's a 2.8 P4 CPU, and stock on board graphics and sound. I upped the soundcard to a digital one, and all I use it for is web, the odd MS Office thingymibob, burning/ripping CD's and DVD's, downloading media files (video, music etc) and very light mucking about in photoshop - it's is absolutely fine with all that Monitor, also Dell, 17" TFT - cost £75. Add to that a tenner for a basic keyboard and mouse, and thats abotu £300 for a full system

 

something like this will do you fine mate http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...sftdppdesktop2
Its not top spec but it will seem like a rocket ship compared to what you have now
It wont be very good at playing games but you said you dont play games really, and it comes with a 20" monitor which is nice

 

Quick mock up on Dells site see's a DIMENSION E520 system, with Dual Core (2.8) Pentium 4 CPU's, 1gb of RAM, a 160gb HDD, 256mb nVidia graphics card, digital 7.1 soundcard, DVD writer drive, interal 13-in-1 memory card reader, preloaded with Windows Vista, 1yrs collect and return warrenty, 17" LCD TFT, sexy multimedia keyboard (I actually fancy one of these) and standard scroll optical mouse (no speakers) for £410 inc VAT and delivery

 

Git - you can't link a built system from Dells site Hence why I listed mine Since they changed to flash, you don't get a custom URL for the specced system

 

Thrush

You got a link to that one mate , like in the post above yours?

edited to add
Forget that then ...posted at the same time

 

See my last post

 

Thrush i didnt re-spec it, all i did was find something suitable and copy/paste the link, i was going to let him play about customizing it, but that one you found would be fine for him

 

the sony vaio media centre pcs are just about to be released on vista