What's the hottest desktop system going
 

right now. Off the shelf.

My system is ass and I need new gear. What's hot shit right now and where can it be ordered

I buy everything Dell. Have 2 sitting here and about to pick up a 3rd. Works for me. Their payment setup is very nice too.

I don't have the time nor the patience to build shit anymore bro.... I just want the shit delivered in a fucking box ready to go.

Ill tell you if you do a new custom design for me at a discount:Graucho



And i need it fast so a discount may be 2k. If you are really good .:winkwink:

Shit i will build and overnight to maui the fattest design system on the planet for 4k.


Holla

Im talking dual monitors and the whole 9

c'mon.... you know I'm under an airtight contract bro... I couldn't make a deal like that even if I wanted to.

yeah but it was worth a try.


Any way system wise i can still build a fuckin system if you want jus tell me specs and ill quote it. I think the man is trying to lock me down based on our convo at the playboy party he is good at that.

guess thats why he has all that cash huh.:winkwink:



Ill show love too if the price is right which i know it is when dealing with .......

go to dell.com and choose all the options... that would make it top-notch

Dell

and if not that..


Dell

realisticly i can build dual 2.7's allot cheaper than dell.

Huh?

I take it you did not bother to look at the link.

That's it.....I want a divorce. :321GFY

G5

<a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&kc=6V592&l=en&oc=DXPSRS&s=d hs">This one</a>

The configuration didn't go through on the link...oh well...for $7K you can get a pretty kickin computer. :thumbsup

e machines

Mac OS X, Amp :)

Get a G5, VirtualPC and run your windowz favorites too. No more viruses, crashes, spyware, trojans... get one.

Hope you are feeling better btw.
:thumbsup

or Gateway if you gotta have a pc...

Alienware?

Alienware has cool cases, thats about it, I could build an equally powerfull system for less :winkwink:

no fans in the case so very quiet
http://voodoopc.com/systems/f50.aspx

just get a nice dell, that way you have warranty.

you can save a few hundred here or there but then what happens when something breaks? They going to express mail the parts to you? There goes all the profit.


I thought you just bought a new bad ass notebook? If not get a notebook thats fast and just use it for everything.

go to a local computer store and get them to custom build it if you cant be fucked, custom is definately the way to go though

dude, your gettin a dell.

yea, but I'm not gonna design on a notebook.... it's like trying to type up a document on a PDA.... possible, but not exactly preferred. Tiny ass keyboard, LCD screen, no room to move around.....

notebooks are for traveling and light duty stuff.

Most people can, however he doesn't seem to be concerned with price.

How many monitors on your main PC Amp? How big?

In Maui? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

They don't even know what a 20 GB drive is.

For the amount of money you are probably willing to spend, and since you mostly use your box for design.... I wouldn't hesitate -- get the Apple.

There is a reason so many pro designers use Mac...

Photoshop in Apple is leaps and bounds faster than on PC.

And now that Apple is 64bit... it's even crazier.

Also, with apple you basically have yourself a local "webserver"....

This means you can have Apache, PHP, Perl, everything... all running natively for your development box if you want.


Here's what I would do I were you:

1) Get the Dual 2.0ghz "refurbished" for $2399.00 (or get the "new" for $2999.. but I would just get the refurb.. computers don't really break.)

2) Add 1 gig of memory (I'd buy it somewhere else)

3) Get a Acard SATA Raid adapter for ~$150 & 2 10k WD Raptor Drives. Run these in raid-0 as your main system drive & run whatever drive came with the box as your junk drive.

Optionally get a couple extra video cards & set up 2-3 displays... not sure how many you use now, but your productivity will go way up with multiple monitors.

But If you insist on getting a PC....

If you are planning on spending $3000 or something, you might want to consider building/buying a 64-bit AMD Opteron box (basically the same CPU thats in the Apples).

You see.. Gates realized recently that 64-bit is the wave of the future & he will be releasing (early this year I think?) a 64-bit version of Windows to use with these new AMD processors.

(article here: http://www.itmanagement.earthweb.com...le.php/2178881 )


Once the public gets a taste of 64-bit Windows on the AMD opteron chip it'll be all over for 32bit Intel.

so if you are about to drop down $3000+, you might consider staying a step ahead of the game here figuring this 64bit windows will be available soon.

Falcon makes nice systems.

http://falcon-nw.com/

Check out their MachV systems. You can spend as much as $850 just on the case if you want to get a fancy paint job. (automotive quality)

They are sort of built for gaming, but that usually goes hand in hand with having the best of everything inside.

ANYBODY TRIED THIS ONE YET?
http://www.asus.com/products/desktop/d1/overview.htm

I was thinking to get it what you guys think
Its a "desktop replacement" not a laptotp read the features

oh i didnt mean to use the keyboard/screen/mouse... I would hook a nice crt/flat panel up to it along with a regular keyboard/mouse.

Then you have everything on one machine and if you go anywhere you have all your work with you.

Check out the Compaq X09 at CompUSA.com

I'm normally not a big fan of Compaq and the like since I build my own systems exactly to the specs I want. But this prebuilt box looks fantastic.

Intel® Pentium® 4 processor, 3.2GHz with Hyper-Threading Threading

NVIDIA® GeForce FX 5950 Ultra graphics card with 256MB DDR memory and AGP 8X support

Hynix 1GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM memory (2 x 512MB modules)

2 x 120GB Seagate Barracuda High-capacity hard drives, Serial
ATA, 7200 rpm, 8M cache, Raid 0 array

DVD+RW/CD-RW and Samsung CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives

7-in-1 memory card reader (supports SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, CompactFlash I/II, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital, and IBM MicroDrive cards)

http://image.compusa.com/prodimages/...9ad1f223e7.gif

looks like a laptop to me...

dude, desktop replacement is just a heavy notebook.

I have 2 brand new dells in the office, they work great.

I also have a brand new top end toshiba laptop, 1 Hp desktop and a Compaq Laptop.

I think we are pretty wired in this office. :)

DH

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yea but they suck for service): Within a week of getting my last one, the processor, motherboard and power supply died and had to be replaced. After about 12 hours on the phone with the non-English speaking service techs, I was able to get a tech out 2 weeks later to fix it .

If you've ever visited Dells site and their forum for customers, you'll see the same complaint over and over......


Love it, but would never buy another for that reason...they contract their service out and that 800 # gets answered in India:mad:


Ivy

apple 2. without a doubt.

I don't understand why people don't build their own computer. It saves you at least $500 or so, you get to select your own parts (instead of using generic shitty parts from vendors like Dell).

Plus, it's easy as pie building your comp, any newbie can do it.

Gotta say Ima gonna hafta agree. Ive done it since I was 9. Love my shit....

I'll probably never buy a prebuilt system again either, but you gotta admit, some people just don't have time to build their own.

Maybe it's just where I live, but I had to visit 3 different stores to get what I needed and I still had to order some stuff (like the Thermaltake case) through mail order. Every store around here just stocks the ugly almond coloured cases with shitty cooling.

Any money I probably saved by building it myself was blown on gas and time.

It is fun though.

:glugglug

i didn't mind building systems when I lived in Silicon Valley and you could buy harddrives at 7-11.....

but things are different now.

alienware really look like antec cases rebadged these days. still good though