Forever been wondering.

I'm hoping to soon buy a laptop for uni, but I've looked at several commercial brand name laptops, and have been wondering if I should go back to the guys in YK who gave me my current rig, been running it for 5 years now with only a VC upgrade. here are the specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.9 Ghz
K7N2 Delta MS-6570 (v 1.X) ATX Mainboard
NVidia nForce 2 Chipset
120 GB HDD
GeForce 4400 64MB (Upgraded it to a GeForce 6600 128Mb about 3 months ago for 62$)

I paid 850$ for this in December of 2002, does it look like a good deal? If it was I'll be thinking of going back to them.

 

what do you have to lose. i would just check out some sales a few stores and compare prices..

 

4 years ago, that was a decent PC (except for the video card maybe, I don't really remember). If you're happy with the products and the service you rec'd from them, go back! Give 'em a chance, especially if they're an independent, local PC shop. I'm a firm believer in supporting the little guy

 

Checked some stuff out, and it looks like that VC cost almost 230$ back then.

Heh, and yes they are an independant shop. Sadly, I have to go almost 3000Km to get back to them(by road), as they are in Yellowknife, NT and we recently moved to Ontario. Ah Oh well, can't blame em. I'm (hopefully) heading up there this summer, so I'll be able to check'em out once again.

Oh and it's 5 years ago. Not four, that would kick the price down exponentially, because as soon as you leave the store, your comp is out of date, sad really.