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Subject: Re: Is this a good price for this System w/ AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 Dual ?

Author: William Penn

Date: 08:42:50 12/26/05

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On December 26, 2005 at 00:26:42, Chessfun wrote:

>On December 26, 2005 at 00:12:27, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On December 25, 2005 at 23:36:07, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.smksuperstore.com/catalog/viewitem.asp?ID=14575
>>
>>I'm pretty impressed -- excellent price.  You might as well get the Windows Xp
>>64 system installed now for $60 -- otherwise you would have to upgrade to use
>>the 64 bit programs at more cost and perhaps much inconvenience.
>>
>>Good Luck!
>>
>>Michael
>
>As installed no monitor, no keyboard, no mouse, no DVD burner, no DVD player,
>160 GB hardrive
>
>Price $1164.88 US.
>
>I think you could do much better.
>
>You'd be much better off at somewhere in the US like best buy and get a HP.
>Though checking bestbuy US they only seem to have a X2 3800. I got my X2 4200 at
>Best Buy Canada for $1299.00 Canadian.
>http://www.hp.ca/products/static/mediapc/m7248n/index.php
>
>Sarah.

I googled awhile but couldn't find the answer to my question - perhaps you will
know offhand... Does the Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 on
your computer support 64-bit? In other words my main purpose in buying such a
system would be maximum speed for chess software, and I thought it was necessary
to use the 64-bit version of Windows XP Pro to obtain that...
WP



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