OT: Refurbished computers?

[Suicide Junkie]

Antonin said:
I looked around on the Dell site, and unfortunately, the computer that is within our price range does not come with any decent software, just the OS. And there's no warranty, which is strange.

You should already own >99% of the software you'll want to use.

Everything you want (except SE5) is already on your old harddrive; just plug it in to the new machine.

[Fyron]

Exactly... it is pretty silly to go and buy a bunch of new software just because you get a new computer.

Also, there are free alternatives to pretty much everything you would get on a Dell (or any manufacturer) system. Most of them are just as good or better...

[Iron Giant]

Microcenter has a 3.0 gig refirb for $350 with $50 rebate and they will give you $100 off if you qualify for a Microcenter credit card = $200

Edit for lack of math skills.