Is this computer a good risk? Its gotta be better than what I have.?

Question

Dell Optiplex 210L Windows 7 Professional 32Bit
Fast and clean system, Specs: P4HT 3.0Ghz, 1.0Gb Ram, 250GB hard drive
DVD player, CD player and Cd burner, 8USB ports
Included: The tower, keyboard, mouse, the 17"LCD flat screen and the power cords
It is very clean and fast, ready for high speed internet
call or txt if interested,###-###-#### the price is $120 cash only and local pick up plz
Software installed: Microsoft Word Office 2010, Power Point, Excel and more
also iTunes, Quick-Time player, antivirus, java adobe and more

Answer 1

The Pentium 4 is from a decade ago, and painful for anything beyond browsing or office work.



I've personally thrown away a bunch of Optiplexes from about six years back. Many of these have the "capacitor plague"—faulty motherboard components that cause a whole list of seemingly unrelated problems.



The 1GB of RAM will be strained by Windows 7. XP, although older, performs slightly better with less RAM. The various Linux distros may also.



Everything else sounds okay, but I'm paid to use computers like these at work—they don't pay me enough.



Avoid this particular offering, and better luck searching.

Answer 2

Check Crucial.com to see what the maximum RAM & speed of the RAM is for that model - and if it is DDR2 or DDR3, so you can upgrade it by adding more RAM to speed it up. Windows 7 does better with more than 1GB of RAM - 4GB will max out a 32 bit operating system - installing more than the computer & operating system can use is not going to help.

Answer 3

lmao i doubt anyone is going to be in your location, for every computer + internet question there is about 4-6 answers average, yahoo answers is worldwide, go on facebook bud