It never ceases to amaze me how cheap PC's are getting these days and how less and less it becomes worth building one yourself (unless you want something special). After being asked to spec up a PC for a customer whom I provide IT support for I went on to see how cheap I could possibly make a reasonably decent PC.

Dells rather interesting Vostro range came to the rescue with a surprising sub £200 machine.

Dell Vostro 200
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2140
1024MB DDR2 SDRAM
250GB 7200RPM HDD
DVD-RW
Integrated 7.1 channel audio
Intel X3100 3D Graphics
Windows Vista Business

£188.07 + VAT & Delivery

Sure the VAT and delivery add a bit of a whack on the price (Dell have always had an outrageous £50 delivery) but at the end of the day this is a real computer with a decent CPU, decent disk and decent amount of RAM. As well as that it comes with a proper version of Vista which on its own could cost you almost as much as the PC if you were to buy it separately.

Posted by Daniel: 12:07, Thu 16th Aug 2007