Uh-Oh, look out Phil, it's a B.. B.. Bargain!

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Chaps,

Went out and braved the new year sales yesterday (fool that I am!)

Ended up (purely because of traffic congestion) in M**lins, where I ended
up
purchasing a "book PC kit", which I have to say I'm really rather
impressed
with! - currently in the catalogue at £249, but recently reduced to £199,
(and you can get a £10 voucher from inside the catalogue...)

for which you get:

a seriously nice-looking ultra small PC unit, in shiny silver & pale
blue,
containing:
an Intel 810 based motherboard,
a DVD-ROM drive,
a floppy drive,
built-in 10/100 ethernet port
built-in V90 modem port
PS2 mouse & keyboad ports
built-in VGA, with both composite and S-Video outputs
built-in Soundblaster 5.1 soundcard, with outputs for front/rear/centre
&
sub (with Dolby digital 5.1 decoding)
1 serial & 1 parallel port
2 USB ports on the back, and 2 more on the front (behind a flap)
There's also an area on the front of the case that looks intriguingly like
an IR window, but I don't know yet if theres IRDA hardware behind it...
Also in the box is a wheel mouse, a matching multimedia keyboad, a rather
nasty-looking pair of speakers, a CPU fan, manuals & a CDROM with
drivers &
a copy of Win-DVD, and a plastic stand for the base unit.

All I have to add is a socket 370 CPU (the manual says it will take either
a
PPGA or a FC-PGA variety), a hard disk, and some RAM (all of which I just
happen to have "spare") and Bob's yer proverbial
aunties-live-in-lover.

So, for less than the cost of a Playstation 2 I've got a fully-loaded
multimedia box, that plays DVD's with dolby digital surround, plays music,
plays games, connects to a 100MB LAN, can access my broadband connection,
and anything else you can think of!

Going out again today - Tottenham Court road & Oxford street this
time...
:-)

Paul G.




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