Bal wrote:

"CJY" wrote in message
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I too am looking for such a PC and have reviewed the details from the links
posted here. Can anyone confirm whether you can add a second hard drive
into
the base unit of these Dell 2400c or 3000 PCs?

Also, they both seem to have 3 PCI slots; how many of these are free? (I
assume the modem takes up one if included?)

The 3000 looks a better buy in terms of what's included e.g. CDRW/DVD
combo
instead of CDROM. Any pitfalls on the 3000 that people are aware of?

Chris


Hi Chris,

the unit will come with one 5.25" and one 3.5" bay free. I'm not sure if you
would be able to use the 3.5" as that is meant for an optional floppy drive
but there is no reason why you couldn't use the 5.25" bay with some form of
rails attached to the drive. Your best bet would be to take out the 40gig
drive and stick a bigger one in it's place. There are 3 PCI slots and yes
one of these is taken up by the modem. It only comes with a CD-ROM which you
can always upgrade to a combo unit quite easily at a later stage. No
pitfalls really just don't expect miracles from what is a starter system,
will be fine for the internet and home applications such as word processing,
spreadsheets etc.

Bloody hell, the world of Windows has gone totally crazy now if a
Celeron 2.6GHz is seen as a 'starter system', that's only useful for
internet and office work.

Where's all that processing power going?

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