PROCESSOR Intel® Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.4GHz,1066FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium with Digital Cable Support edit
MEMORY 3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability edit
MONITORS 22 inch UltraSharp™ 2208WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel edit
VIDEO CARD 256MB nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS edit
SOUND CARD Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD Dell USB Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard edit
MOUSE Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive or Media Reader Included edit
WI-FI AND MODEM 56K PCI Data Fax Modem edit
My Software & Accessories
SPEAKERS Dell AS501 10W Flat Panel Attached Spkrs for UltraSharp™ Flat Panels edit
ADOBE ELEMENTS STUDIO Adobe Elements Studio for XPS™ 420 edit
ANTI-VIRUS & SECURITY No Security edit
PRODUCTIVITY Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD edit
Dell Recommends
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GAMING SOFTWARE The Orange Box (Halflife 2, Fortress 2, Portal) edit
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor,24x7 Phone Support edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Included 10GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Year edit
DIAL-UP INTERNET ACCESS No ISP requested edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
PHOTOS, MUSIC & MORE! No Entertainment software pre-installed
I might buy XP and dual boot, it cant come pre-loaded with it, its currently $1609 before my dad gets discounts for it, what should I upgrade?
You should upgrade the integrated sound to a Creative X-Fi card, add a media reader, and maybe see if you can get an 8800GT for the video card.
Upgrade to a Linux distro.
Quote from: Hiei on January 20, 2008, 02:19:05 PM
You should upgrade the integrated sound to a Creative X-Fi card, add a media reader, and maybe see if you can get an 8800GT for the video card.
$50 extra for the 8800 X-fi is $100 extra. It comes with Media Center.
Quote from: JMV290 on January 20, 2008, 02:20:26 PM
Upgrade to a Linux distro.
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Upgrade to Vista Ultimate.
Quote from: JMV290 on January 20, 2008, 02:32:29 PM
Most Linux distros are free.
Well...yes and no in terms of gratis. Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn't gratis, but it's the exact same thing as Fedora minus Red Hat's artwork and enterprise support.
A majority are also libre (as long as you aren't crazy like rms), although some aren't, like Linspire/Freespire.
Quote from: Mystic Swampert
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There is very, very little you cannot do with a GNU/Linux distro that you can't do with Windows or Mac OS X.
Upgrade to XP.