vectra or HP

[jesseejames]

need some help is there any difference between a 1ghz HP and a Vectra 1ghz and are either one of them worth purchasing--pentium III 1ghz 128mb 20 gig hdd cdrom-any idea of how much a person should give for one? know prices for pentium one and antiques and pentium 4's but in the dark on pentiumIII's

For something like that, the video card is going to be the focul point for purchase. Whichever has a better card would probably be the way to go.

But it depends on how much you want to spend. I mean, if you've got $500 to toss around, you could build something four times that fast.

I wouldn't pay more than $200 for either of those systems, personally. But I'm pretty picky.

[jesseejames]

thanks for the insight I have a chance to bid on these systems and was interested in their worth and usability--sounds like if I can get one of them cheap it would be ok so mother in law can get e-mail with it

[sharder8]

Both are HP's!

The one is probably a Pavilion and the other is a Vectra.

Pavilion = personal home computer

Vectra = business/corporate computer

Generally speaking, the Vectra would be better built, run better with full optimizations (better stability), use higher quality components, run NT/W2K/XP.

The Pavilion would be equal to the typical Dell/Gateway/etc.

Similar would be the comparison between the Compaq Pissareo and the Compaq Prolina. Just looking inside the 2 computers will make you question that they both built by the same company. (Prolina is the business model)

Harder

[jesseejames]

Thanks that answered my question about the difference between the two now I have knowledge to bid smart with--Thanks

[Christian-Comp]

I have to agree with Whir, totally.

[Omardeth]

if your bidding on them at an auction i wouldn't bid more than 175-200$ like whir said you can build a pc pretty cheap if it isn't a gaming pc . here is a barebones system for 200$ that should werk nice just add OS and your good to go . 199$ and it will be alot faster than a pIII 1gig .