Well, not exactly "new". I got it on the last Woot-off, a refurb HP machine. I had a coupon for ten bucks, so that brought the price down to $339.99 plus an additional $5.00 for shipping. Such a deal. In anticipation of this, I bought another KVM switchbox, this one a four port since my current one is only two port. And I’ll have three computers. A KVM switch (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) allows you to share (what else?) a keyboard, video and mouse between machines.
Since I’ve got enought speakers set up, don’t need anymore of those, but I do need a way to share, I ordered two (even though I only needed one) of these. The male ends will attach to the speaker input on both computers and the one female end is where I’ll input the actual speaker.
I’ve been unhappy with my monitor for a while, it’s an LCD and it has lines across the top. They annoy me greatly. Not actually looking to buy a monitor, I did look at them. Brian caught me looking and saw the price, under $150 and said go for it. I did a little more research and came up with this little gem .And, as I always do, I searched for coupon codes for hitting the “order” button. Got ten percent off of the $112.99 price. And what’s really nice about Geeks.com, is they’re a local company. I had my stuff the next day. There was a small learning curve with this monitor, but I like it a lot.
Some people would never buy a refurbished machine. But as someone said on the Woot boards about the computer with new computers, there’s a human looking at random machines down the line. Most never get a once over by a human. But a refurb? You know a refurb has been looked at by a person.
I was a little anxious about the computer, since reading the comments from others who got theirs before mine arrived, some were really, really happy, machines looking brand new and others were very disappointed, because there were a lot of cosmetic problems with the computer case.
Mine was just beeeyoooteeful!
These computers also came with a free upgrade to Windows 7. I wish I’d been able to pay a nominal fee to upgrade to the pro version, but I’m not complaining about a free upgrade.
One of the things I plan on doing with this new computer with it’s 6GB of RAM, is graphics and movies. I read a caution to not install new programs to a Vista machine that you’ll be upgrading to Win 7. I found a new Corel Suite that does photo editing and movie making that runs on Vista and Win7 that I planned on getting in the future, once I had upgraded to the new system. But doing a search for coupons (I spend WAAAYYY too much time online), I found one for fifty percent off the price, that expires on the 23rd.
So, I bought it.
And I think that’s it for spending money on this.
I’ve got it up and running and on the internet. I have things to figure out on it, but it seems pretty good.
I’m happy.
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