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Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a $349
special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.

Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
Hauppauge PVR USB2)
Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
shows.

Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia PCI
video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot, but
not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
useless.

No point in the post. Just interesting.

Tom

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Tom,

Very good point that it's not useless. I don't know if I would be running
one the way that you are, however I do know that they're still very cool
hardware :-)

-gg-

> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
> $349 special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>
> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
> external
> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
> shows.
> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a
> nVidia PCI video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for
> an AGP slot, but not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in
> this newsgroup as useless.
>
> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>
> Tom
>

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In article <MyJLe.14348$Oy2.12649@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
tomtoo@softhome.net says...
> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a $349
> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>
> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
> shows.
>
> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia PCI
> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot, but
> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
> useless.
>
> No point in the post. Just interesting.

For limited use, meaning no heavy duty applications, not using all there
is to use in Word, not using Photoshop, not designing code, not running
any form of database, and not trying to play online games, they are fine
machines, but, when you consider performance for cost, they are a bad
deal.

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"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d69434be4015864989baf@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> In article <MyJLe.14348$Oy2.12649@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
> tomtoo@softhome.net says...
>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
>> $349
>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>
>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>> shows.
>>
>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
>> PCI
>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
>> but
>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>> useless.
>>
>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>
> For limited use, meaning no heavy duty applications, not using all there
> is to use in Word, not using Photoshop, not designing code, not running
> any form of database, and not trying to play online games, they are fine
> machines, but, when you consider performance for cost, they are a bad
> deal.
>
>

Really. Hmm. I use mine heavily for Photoshop CS2 with 12 megapixel Nikon
D2X images. Excellent performance. Oh, I also use it to run IIS with PHP
to develop my website and run it locally for testing. Oh, and four
simultaneous video captures.

I agree they're not perfect, but they're a GOOD deal for the cost. $349
shipped.

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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:i3LLe.14361$Oy2.6245@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>

>>
>
> Really. Hmm. I use mine heavily for Photoshop CS2 with 12 megapixel
> Nikon D2X images. Excellent performance. Oh, I also use it to run IIS
> with PHP to develop my website and run it locally for testing.


Tom, shoot me an email regarding your IIS PHP setup. I'm interested in
playing around with this myself but between work and playing with camera's I
haven't had much free time to research it.

Thanks,
Rob

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Tom Scales wrote:
> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a $349
> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>
> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
> shows.
>
> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia PCI
> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot, but
> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
> useless.
>
> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>
> Tom
>
>
There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
for most purposes.

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My sentiments exactly. Of course, the pair of DIMM sockets can always have
2x1GB in them, more than enough for most uses... Ben Myers

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:44:22 GMT, Nicholas Andrade <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Tom Scales wrote:
>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a $349
>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>
>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>> shows.
>>
>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia PCI
>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot, but
>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>> useless.
>>
>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
>major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
>PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
>for most purposes.

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Actually, I believe the 2400 is limited like the 4550 to 512MB DIMMs

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:42ff939d.17149386@nntp.charter.net...
> My sentiments exactly. Of course, the pair of DIMM sockets can always
> have
> 2x1GB in them, more than enough for most uses... Ben Myers
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:44:22 GMT, Nicholas Andrade
> <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Tom Scales wrote:
>>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
>>> $349
>>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>>
>>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
>>> external
>>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>>> shows.
>>>
>>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
>>> PCI
>>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
>>> but
>>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>>> useless.
>>>
>>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
>>major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
>>PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
>>for most purposes.
>

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www.Crucial.com states the Dim 2400 "Series" can handle up to 2GB (2048MB) of RAM. Don't know if the word "Series" has any meaning relating amount of memory that can be used. But for the type, that must be used depending on (Celeron or P4) Mother Board installed.

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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message news:kDMLe.23339$dJ5.15136@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Actually, I believe the 2400 is limited like the 4550 to 512MB DIMMs

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:42ff939d.17149386@nntp.charter.net...
> My sentiments exactly. Of course, the pair of DIMM sockets can always
> have
> 2x1GB in them, more than enough for most uses... Ben Myers
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:44:22 GMT, Nicholas Andrade
> <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Tom Scales wrote:
>>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
>>> $349
>>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>>
>>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
>>> external
>>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>>> shows.
>>>
>>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
>>> PCI
>>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
>>> but
>>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>>> useless.
>>>
>>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
>>major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
>>PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
>>for most purposes.
>

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Well, I didn't know that. Putting $286 worth of memory in a $349 computer
seems a little silly

Tom
"RRR_News" <RRR_News@isp.com> wrote in message
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www.Crucial.com states the Dim 2400 "Series" can handle up to 2GB (2048MB)
of RAM. Don't know if the word "Series" has any meaning relating amount of
memory that can be used. But for the type, that must be used depending on
(Celeron or P4) Mother Board installed.

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"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:kDMLe.23339$dJ5.15136@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
Actually, I believe the 2400 is limited like the 4550 to 512MB DIMMs

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:42ff939d.17149386@nntp.charter.net...
> My sentiments exactly. Of course, the pair of DIMM sockets can always
> have
> 2x1GB in them, more than enough for most uses... Ben Myers
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:44:22 GMT, Nicholas Andrade
> <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Tom Scales wrote:
>>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
>>> $349
>>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>>
>>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
>>> external
>>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>>> shows.
>>>
>>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
>>> PCI
>>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
>>> but
>>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>>> useless.
>>>
>>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
>>major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
>>PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
>>for most purposes.
>

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Not too many people need 2GB of memory either. 1GB tops, should cover most any
use a normal person would make of a desktop computer... Ben Myers

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:39:50 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:

>Well, I didn't know that. Putting $286 worth of memory in a $349 computer
>seems a little silly
>
>Tom
>"RRR_News" <RRR_News@isp.com> wrote in message
>newssWdnb5sM8J2AWLfRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
>www.Crucial.com states the Dim 2400 "Series" can handle up to 2GB (2048MB)
>of RAM. Don't know if the word "Series" has any meaning relating amount of
>memory that can be used. But for the type, that must be used depending on
>(Celeron or P4) Mother Board installed.
>
>--
>
>Rich/rerat
>
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><<Previous Text Snipped to Save Bandwidth When Appropriate>>
>
>
>"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
>news:kDMLe.23339$dJ5.15136@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>Actually, I believe the 2400 is limited like the 4550 to 512MB DIMMs
>
><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>news:42ff939d.17149386@nntp.charter.net...
>> My sentiments exactly. Of course, the pair of DIMM sockets can always
>> have
>> 2x1GB in them, more than enough for most uses... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:44:22 GMT, Nicholas Andrade
>> <SDNick484@nospam.yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Tom Scales wrote:
>>>> Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
>>>> $349
>>>> special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>>>>
>>>> Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>>>> Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>>>> Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
>>>> external
>>>> Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>>>> Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>>>> shows.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
>>>> PCI
>>>> video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
>>>> but
>>>> not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>>>> useless.
>>>>
>>>> No point in the post. Just interesting.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>There are tons of situations where a 2400 is more than adequate. It's
>>>major down sides are having only 2 DIMM slots (I could be wrong) & no
>>>PCI-X/AGP. If you don't plan on playing games, it's more than adequate
>>>for most purposes.
>>
>
>
>

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Jeeze!!

This thread drives me NUTS!!

3 or 4 years ago a 2400 would have been the kick ass machine that many would
be touting as the second coming. Of course it can do more than simple web
surfing.and MS Office stuff. It can and does do video editing at a
respectable clip (especially by 4 year old standards); ripping CDs is
child's play. Games are better done on a dedicated PS2, or whatever.

Yes, it has limited expandability, but for the price it is quite good. FWIW
I have a 2350, 2400, 4550 and an Inspiron 9300. All are pretty damn
acceptable.

Mike


"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d69434be4015864989baf@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> In article <MyJLe.14348$Oy2.12649@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
> tomtoo@softhome.net says...
> > Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a
$349
> > special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
> >
> > Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
> > Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
> > Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2
external
> > Hauppauge PVR USB2)
> > Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
> > shows.
> >
> > Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia
PCI
> > video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot,
but
> > not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
> > useless.
> >
> > No point in the post. Just interesting.
>
> For limited use, meaning no heavy duty applications, not using all there
> is to use in Word, not using Photoshop, not designing code, not running
> any form of database, and not trying to play online games, they are fine
> machines, but, when you consider performance for cost, they are a bad
> deal.
>
> --
>
> spam999free@rrohio.com
> remove 999 in order to email me

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On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:37:16 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:

>Just reconfigured my Dimension 2400 that I bought last year. It was a $349
>special. P4-2.8/533, 512MB. Nothing special.
>
>Now it is running Media Center Edition 2005.
>Has a total of 850GB storage (250GB internal, 600GB external USB2)
>Has four TV tuner cards (internal Hauppauge 500MCE dual tuner, 2 external
>Hauppauge PVR USB2)
>Runs Snapstream's BeyondTV to simultaneously record up to 4 concurrent
>shows.
>
>Oh, and is now my primary machine. Drives dual LCD panels from a nVidia PCI
>video card. In hindsight, I should have bout the 4600 for an AGP slot, but
>not bad for a 'cheap little machine' characterized in this newsgroup as
>useless.
>
>No point in the post. Just interesting.
>
>Tom
>
>